The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

You should never give up your inner self.

Silence is a source of great strength.

I really have no interest in myself.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

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.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.