After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.
Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.
As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.
The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.
Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.
It's crazy to me how concerned people get with what it looks like and what you can do there. People may as well be talking about JRR Tolkien or Star Trek or something.
Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
Teenagers also sometimes think, 'What's the use? The world will soon be blown all apart and come to an end. ' That feeling comes from fear, not from faith. No one knows the hour or the day (see D&C 49:7), but the end cannot come until all of the purposes of the Lord are fulfilled. Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.
Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.