Up To You

"As long as this body can manage, my whole life I dedicate... to serve you as much as I can." - Dalai Lama

"I am a Buddhist and... I speak from my own experience, I feel that no one has the right to impose his or her beliefs on another person. I will not propose to you that my way is best. The decision is up to you. If you find some point which may be suitable for you, then you can carry out experiments for yourself. If you find that it is of no use, then you can discard it."
~ His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama

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“I don't have any kind of theology or religion yet, I'm just learning all about it. I do transcendental meditation. I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga. Them things, they take you there. You know how, if you tuned your radio in, you could listen to Capital Gold or Classic Gold? There are other aspects of consciousness that you can tune yourself into. These new ones I'm listening to are mental…

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have. I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless…
I suppose one has to ultimately think, what's more important, the freedom of a nation or the career of one person? And I suppose, really, the freedom of a nation in most people's minds would be more important… What's going to happen when all civilization collapses? We'll be baffled if we've got no spiritual structure to step into, so we've got to work on it."

~ Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio host, author, and activist. He has been the subject of frequent media coverage and controversy for issues such as his promiscuity and drug use, his outrageous behaviour at various award ceremonies, his dismissal from MTV and resignation from the BBC, and his two-year marriage with singer Katy Perry. He has incorporated many of his controversial public antics into his comedic material. In 2015 a biographical documentary called Brand: A Second Coming was released.