If you look closely at a tree you’ll notice it’s knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.
We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.
The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.
Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.
I’m not saying I want a film career because I think I’m too good for television. I’m simply saying I want more control over my life.
I’m either going to have the career I want doing films, or I’ll do something else – I’ll be gone.
I’m an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.
I’ll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.
By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.
What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.
To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.