Life is difficult.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.

Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.

Love is possession, a sort of vanity.

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.

Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

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