Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.
Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.
The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.
Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse - the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level-we rediscover who God is.
When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other ways to be spiritual, too.
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.
I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.