“Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –

It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.

Things don’t always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That’s when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.

I’m a really good person. I’m down to earth. I have a big heart. I have feelings. And I’m just like everybody else.

Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn’t solve anything. I don’t like yelling and fighting and I can’t quarrel, I prefer to let it drop. When people use disagreeable words, I feel crushed and remember them for a long time.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it’s me. I don’t feel frightened; I feel challenged.

I feel like I grew up too fast a long time ago.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.