There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

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

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

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

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

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

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

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.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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

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

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.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

I’m selfish.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.