The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.
To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.
A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.
Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.
Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.
Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.
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