In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

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

Be content to seem what you really are.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

All you need is love.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.