“At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don’t want to know them.”

This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.

Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn’t it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? …’cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.

Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either.

This world is not my concern; it is myself.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.

Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?

The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.

Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.

Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.

The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.

I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.

Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.

The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil.

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.