“My grandparents didn’t teach me spirituality, they taught me wisdom. There’s a difference. The stories they told me were basically just lessons, although they may have been couched in different language. But the messages were simple. Do the right thing. Do the best you can with what you have. Respect life. We didn’t consider that religion, we considered it reality.”
“I left AIM in 1979 becuase I was just done. That part of my life was finished. My leaving AIM was inevitable even before the fire, it was just a matter of when. But after the fire I just didn’t have the energy. Reality had changed for me. I could not go back to their reality and I couldn’t bring them into my new reality. I had been exiled from their reality and there was no way I could go back. It was just so devastating that I knew I could never be in the same reality as them ever again.”
“Reality changes and you better change with it, or you lose. Ask the dinosours. I had a responsibility to those who were murdered. I had to survive what had been done. I had to find a way to endure.”
“I was speaking at some conference a couple of years ago, and a guy came up to me and told me that I was spiritually disconnected because I have so much anger. I told him maybe you’re the one who’s disconnected because you don’t.”
“I never considered myself a spiritual leader. I just figured I had a spirit, and it was my attitude. A bad attitude. It’s not my objective to be a leader, to get people to follow me. I don’t like people behind me. But if something I say or do makes someone think, even if I don’t change their mind, I’ve done my job.”
“I have seen a lot of people who are on a spiritual quest who still just don’t get it. They are seeking knowledge, but they stop at the New Age section of the bookstore. I’m not saying they’re looking in the wrong place for their spirit, but they’re not looking in enough places. They forget to look within themselves. They don’t even see themselves anymore, and the first place they look is outside of themselves? It doesn’t make sense. You can’t be a spiritual person and sit off on the sidelines with all the bad things that are going on. It just doesn’t work that way.”