“The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.”

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

People should realize we’re jerks just like them.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.

You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

Living in each moment with the awareness that nothing is permanent is an invitation to love more deeply, to speak more honesty, and to align with whispers of our soul.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.