If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Forget the past.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.