There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.
Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.
Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.
What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.
In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.
The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it, like looking up at a limitless sky. That boundary-less place inside you is your own consciousness, your awareness. When you relax into it, you realize that it's also full - it is everything. You realize this presence is what you really are: Love.
You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter. '
I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.
There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.
The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.