Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.

All things are divine. And yet, we pick and choose among them what's appropriate.

This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.

The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.

In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.

We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.