I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.

By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.

You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.