The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
It’s a big enough umbrella, but it’s always me that ends up getting wet.
My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.
The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.
If you love someone, set them free.
If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he’s the hero of the day.
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.
When there’s no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.
I’ve spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it’s not good for my health.
Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.
Hell is full of high court judges.
My logic’s been drowned in a sea of emotion.
They build machines they can’t control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.
I never saw a miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.
Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.
Takes more than combat boots to make a man.
Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.
I’ve been the lowest low on the planet, I’ve been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.