A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.

Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight.

The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

Grace doesn't cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.

...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?