I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral….

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

I am not an African. I am an American..

To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has no….

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom..

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump..

Be bold. You gotta be bold..

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health..

I lived and languished..

The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan….

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud..

Because love, love never finishes..

It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living..

All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of heaven is….

I don't see the point in working just to be working..

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do..

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it..

Nobody understands your life, but you..

This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700, 800 years - Persian poets ….