That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution
Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.
Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.
In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything.
The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make.
Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience. . . . this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.
Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.
Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.
This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.
I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly.
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.