Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.
Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.
The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.
We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.
Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It’s unavoidable.
Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.
I am a Westerner. We’re not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it’s like a mirror, saying, hey, can’t you see what’s here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?
There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.
Creation is all space, all time – all things past, present, and future.
To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there’s only one river.
The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.
Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.
Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.
I directed an episode of ‘Party of Five’ toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
Work should be in order to live. We don’t live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.
We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
I think that there’s a hidden darkness in all of us!
I think you’ve got to take your time and make sure you’re making choices that are smart for you.