Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

All religions have been made by men.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

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

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.