“By music I mean the ‘spirit of the game,’ which is what spirituality ultimately points to – ‘I hear the voice’ (of Nature, God, beauty, truth, love…). Hear it and move onto or into.”

“We need specific, frequent rituals that plug us back into recalling, for lack of a better phrase, the meaning of life. Such rituals can be anything in which we stop, feel and look clearly at what we love and value most, or even simpler – emptying out everything in the way of those.”

“Anguish – discontentment, stress, anxiety to profound sorrow, rage, despair…the experts who deal with these problems all point to three key factors that reduce these for everyone: creativity, service and physicality.”

“The easiest way to do that is to notice and invest in whatever it is that provokes wonderment. You could call this coming back to mysticism as a way of life. We were all already there as children.”

“Perhaps the best we can do is to work to uphold the human virtues and qualities we most value, even in the face of everyone’s cynicism, skepticism and distrust, including our own.”

“To aid someone else in being happy is not an obvious or easy thing to do. One would need to be passionately curious about what makes up happiness, for example.”

“Faith is a mysterious thing…something much more intuitive, extending directly from one’s core love of life.”

“This is where we can find the greatest relief and joy everyday: falling under thought, anxiety, worry and all forms of me, into stillness; losing oneself in compelling engagements that transcend ambition, strategy, self-gain and self-consciousness.”

“One can’t know unless one really intends to do something appropriate with the knowing.”

“An initial perception or impulse has an infinite number of directions it can go. “