VISIONARY ARTIST / PRODUCER / ENGINEER• Everything changes. Everything happens in cycles. Everything contributes.• Everything contains within itself the seed of its apparent opposite.• Everything is important, and nothing is significant.• There are no accidents.• Things are not happening to me—they are happening for me.• Do I want to be right—or do I want to be effective?• Am I available for what I say I want?• What is my part?• Expand to include—and have it contribute.• There is no meaning in reality. Truth does not mean anything; it is just what’s so.• No good deed goes unpunished.• The mind is a dangerous neighborhood; don’t go in there alone.• Our baggage is the material we need to transform. We need our stuff—we just want to become objective about it so we can deal with it.• If you are going to be there, be there. If not, go someplace else.• Whatever you hold as this shouldn’t be, you energize its continued existence.• What you can’t choose, you have to hold as burden.• Where you are the most wounded—you are the most accomplished.• Where you stumble is your gold.• When you get your limits—you get your maturity.• When you diminish another person you lose their ability to contribute to you.• As long as you have to live inside the tribe, you cannot be a leader.• As consciousness rises, significance drops away.• The universe is not oppositional—only our minds are.• It is all, all working.• It is better to ride the horse in the direction it is going.• It is not about me. It may have something to do with me, but it is not about me—or my value. Nor is it about you—or your value.• Do not assign emotional responsibility to another; they don’t cause it—they only occasion it.• Gathering evidence is the way in which we organize our resistance.• Get the debt out of relationship.• Relationship will not fill my gap (the solution then becomes the problem).• There is a difference between taking a stand and being a stand.• Position creates opposition; when I take a position, I have to defend it.• Context determines content.• Consciousness is that which recognizes itself.• Complaint is an abdication of responsibility.• Attachment produces dependence, dependence produces complaint; you can’t get to satisfaction from complaint.• Expectation shuts it down.• Love is the recognition of the equal in the other.• Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.• People are miraculous surprises.
