“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.

There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.

How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos.

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

If we keep in touch with god and our spiritual guides, just knowing that they exist and they are there for us, gives us the strength to say well this is a bad phase but it’s going to end and when it ends I’m going to do something good.

People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That’s why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.

You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.

Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.