Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality.

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

I don't spend my hours plotting for somebody else's downfall.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.