“Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can ...” — Donovan Quote

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

I absorbed the vinyl of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, to Michael McClure and then into the Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg. At campus, we were absorbing that stuff. We looked to America.

Yogis have human emotions, but the thing is not to let anger and doubt become an obsession.

I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead.

Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.

Buddhism has helped me understand my defects and has given me the tools to combat them.

The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.