“Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?”

To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.

Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.

The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.

It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.

Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.

Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.

There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.

Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.

Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love. When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.

If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn’t be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.

The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.

Chanting is the main thing in my life.

Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.

There is an eighth color that we don’t have the sense apparatus to see or experience.

I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn’t just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

When white and black and brown and every other color decide they’re going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.