I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.
Tom ShadyacThe one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.
Tom ShadyacThe mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.
Tom ShadyacLove is not always about โeverythingโs fineโโฆlove is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesnโt always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.
Tom ShadyacI didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.
Tom ShadyacOur own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.
Tom Shadyac