"Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional."

“Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?”

“City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down”

“Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.”

“My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.”

“Whatever the method, the purpose of quieting the mind is always the same... to step out of you own way and touch a Universal Oneness with all things.”

“I am not going to say that people who enter the military are doing anything wrong. As I often jokingly tell my students, "Many of my best of friends are in the military!" But it's true. Perhaps not in the Aristotelian sense of the word "friendship" but on so many other levels that matter, we are truly friends.”

“Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that is not destroyed by illness but a body that is consumed by its own long burning fire.”

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“Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.”