"Spiritual success depends on your Conductivity. No Spiritual Conductivity, no progress!"

“Underwear is such an emotional thing.”

“If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

“I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.”

“There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.”

“The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.”

“My whole mode is to do what I want to do and let people understand me through that.”

Source : Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2007.

“Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.”

“I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!”