We feel and know that we are eternal.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

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.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

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.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

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

Where love is, there God is also.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

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

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Our God is a forgiving God.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

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

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.