You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.

People are only mean when they’re threatened, and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does.

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. Andthe harms we do, we do...

If you hold back on the emotions–if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them–you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re...