Oh, my bad. . . I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot I only exist when you need me for something.
The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.
Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups. ”)
There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.
The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.
If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.
When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.