If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.

It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.