Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.
At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.
You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.
Have the right people in the right places, working together
Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.
The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists