It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

Love is the feeling that emanates from the heart and extends through the blood to every cell of the body.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.

The path to joy leads through despair.

He went to India to "find himself" last year, but evidently he wasn't there, and he came back empty-handed.

That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.

Don't be afraid to step out and trust God. He is more faithful than the rising of the sun.

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.