I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a “falling in love” moment.
I don’t think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.
There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
I don’t meet many people that are evil. I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That’s very rare.
Everyone responds to kindness.
I’m younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.
I can’t say I have control over my emotions; I don’t know my mind. I’m lost like everyone else. I’m certainly not a leader.
People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It’s ludicrous. It’s not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.
I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let’s just say things would have turned out differently.
I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they’re not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
I’m a 50 year-old guy and I’m not in shape like I was when I was 30.
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can’t be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
We’ve had too many World AIDS Days.
All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.
I’ve got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it’s not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There’s much more.
To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on.
Mindfulness is a quality that’s always there. It’s an illusion that there’s a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you’re either mindful or you’re not.