...if we are open and we prepare for promoting dialogue and love, and a better understanding of each other, and tolerance and so forth, that's what the world will become, a more tolerant, loving place.
The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.
Service is the key to everything in life.
I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
The artists are now big brands.
Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.
You just have to smile and breathe. You do the best you can with what you have and that's it.
If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.
I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good practice to eat anything that might run away from you.
I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I'm not a vegan for health reasons - although obviously I'm 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that's true. But I'm a vegan for compassionate reasons.
In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of when. I ask those who feel that giving freedom to others somehow binds you, to please take a good look at what you are standing behind.
No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.
Meditation helps everything.
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
You've got to do things that promote what's important.
Don't worry what others are doing. Do you!
I don't like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that's most inspiring, because it's at that second that you're aware of "the infinite everything."
If you aren't passionate about a vision, it's hard to have faith in it.
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
