Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.