We feel and know that we are eternal.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

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

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

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.

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.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.