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

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

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I give the children education.

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.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

A person hears only what they understand.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Many admire, few know.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

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

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

The cautious seldom err.

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.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.