We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in this world. So you have to will something else.

What you have to do is just walk into the light. Then you find that it doesn't burn, and it's not particular frightening.

God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?

Forgiveness is the best revenge.

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment.