“This, too, will pass.”

Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” and find that there is no death.

Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

Man made God in his own image.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

When I started this journey again with you, I have witnessed all the highs and lows.

I will keep on hurdling and keep on hustling.

Jesus has enough, is enough, and will be enough.

I’ve brought myself back to life more times than I can remember. And when I say I brought myself back, I mean, I have clawed, clambered and coaxed myself from the precipice of self destruction.

I haven’t wept for days, only shuffling feet, carrying weights, ignoring the pain, numbing the face. Its all a charade.

What you can’t be with, won’t let you be.

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.