“It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s awareness.

Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is here, and you will arrive now, so you stop asking.

A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

Just relax and trust the process.

In mystical traditions, it is one’s own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.

When you are already in Detroit, you don’t have to take a bus to get there.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.

You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but can’t control the world.

I only have a stylist when I go to big events, but even then, I give them moodboards to show exactly how I want to look, so I’m mostly in control. I dress myself on a daily basis, though.

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment.

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don’t think about it.

He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.

Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.