The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply laying the foundation for the next depression.

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.

Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.