“The mind is like monkeys at the zoo; the monkeys at the zoo swing from tree to tree. Nobody can stop them. They can only be watched, or observed, or noticed” Sometimes all you can do is notice how crazy the ‘monkeys’ are, decide to laugh,or just realize they’re only ‘thoughts.’”

Taste is the most incredible bonus to any experience this world has to offer.

Ask if, to relax yourself, you are inflicting pain or inflicting suffering.

Ask yourself if you know the difference between pain and suffering.

Purge all attachments and toxins. For a greater challenge, invite suffering.

You will know when your suffering has ended because you will still feel pain but you will feel gratitude for not suffering any longer.

Enslaved peoples need a voice so that we do not become enslaved by our own ignorance.

My cell phone knows me better than anybody else and I am grateful to have a tool showing me more of what I can trust will help me unwind.

We do not worship the same as our Fathers but we worship to be as our Fathers.

Forcing yourself into horrifying memories of self will bring you great balance of spirit, because as they say, good outweighs evil.

The ghosts of those I’ve harmed in life will follow me as spirits in death so I must remember them in life.

Do not expect to sleep unassisted after great meditation.

Conquer the dragons and tigers ripping at your arms and hunching you over with weight.

Strength. Courage. Integrity. Wisdom. Every day is given.

Feel pain every day to remind yourself that you are a god

Find your arteries. Lighten your body. Feel loose and ready.

Sadr Mohra

Bone and muscles surrounded by skin.

Floating in the water that at the same time you’re sinking in.

Lite on your feet Soft on your soul.

Preparing for prosperity

Lifting your body for you

Softening the blows of life

Life the muscles in your feet and legs from your hips and belly. Feel your chest and neck get heavy with blood. Feel your legs lifting more and getting stronger.

Wakin’ up stiff! Comin’ home loose. THAT’S a great day!

Body movin’! Body movin’! Ain’t no sounds but it sounds so soothin’!

Givin’ up on your body? You can still lift right? You’re relaxed right? You’re ready right? You’re loose right? You’re hot right? You’ve got more than one part right? Let’s get it? We’re movin’! You’re movin’!

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

I miss my singing career very much.

I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it's great material, then you feel confident in it.

I had flops, I had success.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

As you grow older, it's harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don't know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now.

The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally?

The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who's gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.

There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind.

I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.