“God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.”

“It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.”

“The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.”

“Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.”

“The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory.”

“...I didn't feel like there was anything incompatible with my love of gangster rap and my spiritual aspirations.”

“Sitting still is a pain in the ass.”