Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you’re not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me.
I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It’s not nice.
People write negatives things, cause they feel that’s what sells. Good news to them, doesn’t sell.
Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, “Live, be, move, rejoice – you are alive!” Without the heart’s wise rhythm, we could not exist.
When children listen to music, they don’t just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings – soon the child and the music are one.
I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am.
I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.
And that’s what innocence is. It’s simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
It’s a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It’s not the truth I’m here to say. You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don’t care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.