If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife [Madonna]. That's even why I married her.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.