We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

We are what we think, having become what we thought.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

Anger is sign that something needs to change.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

Let me see what I have that will 'abide the fire.'