Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.
Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.
The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.
A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.
We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.
Whatever you think you are, that's not what you are.
Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.
Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.
If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.
Sometimes you get involved in a film because you just love making movies and you want to keep working. Sometimes you're lucky enough to find something that you really care about. Therefore, now I'm emphasizing developing my own projects and writing my own screenplays, so that I can do exactly what I like to do.