Mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it & mistake it for who you are. It then becomes the egoic mind and takes over your whole life.

Here is the key. End the delusion of time. Time & mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind & it stops - unless you choose to use it. You choose to use it.

Time is an illusion & it's not precious at all. What you perceive as precious I'd not time but the one point that is out of time; the Now. Now is the only thing that is. It is all there is.

Life is Now. There was never a time when your life was not now. The Now is the only point that can take you beyond the confines of the mind.

Satori - a moment of no mind & total presence. Be grateful when it comes, even briefly.

Whenever & wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present. Could it be that this nameless essence and your presence are one and the same ? Would it be there without your presence ? Go deeply into it. Find out

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It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

I'm into women. I've always loved women.

I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

Appearance rules the world.

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.

A team mentality must form and all have to pull together with a sense of urgency to bring the vision into reality.

Love is the greatest gift when given. It is the highest honor when received.

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.

In L.A., everybody ain't so nice.

And in life it is all about choices we make. And how the direction of our lives comes down to the choices we choose.

You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've done before.

I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I'm very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream, you know?

No one can make you feel inferior unless you let them.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.

I grew up in an all-white community.