An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.

Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!

If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

I think the best person in her [Hillary Clinton's] campaign is mainstream media.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

The taint of arrogance will I not know.