I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.

I'm not okay, you're not okay, and that's okay.

If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.

There is no problem that is not actually a gift.