The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around...One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.

Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

That which is injurious loses its capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that which we emanate.

Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others... At this point, the healed may become a healer.

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

Strength conquers some, might conquers many, power conquers numerous, but love conquers all.

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds - and a warmer world.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.