You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.