The truth is the light and light is the truth.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.