All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

We cannot heal what we cannot feel.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

See him now, so boyish a body and an older head.” (Bhutta)

He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.

True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self but the point is not only to get out you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

And the rest is rust and stardust.