Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.
Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.
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?
Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.
I really like putting the kids to bed. Everyone is cozy and snuggly. Nobody is giving anyone a hard time, and everybody reads.
Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
Nevermind what you normally would do. Just cough up your goddam buck like everyone else.