Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible.
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.
I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.
You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the snow slips to the ground without the leaf having stirred. Stay like that at the point of highest tension until the shot falls from you. So, indeed, it is: when the tension is fulfilled, the shot must fall, it must fall from the archer like snow from a bamboo leaf, before he even thinks it.
We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.
We get real picky about frequencies. Put it on a tape, start on tape, and it's kind of locked to how it sounds. Which would have been a very interesting thing to have done, but we were very aware that we wanted a bizarre kind of production value on the record.