When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

No practice exists in isolation.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.

My father taught me how to understand and be sensitive to others, which is probably the most critical aspect of leadership. Without it you are only a manager.

A strong person forgives even the most unforgivable.

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If you think that there's anything that you need to do for salvation, then you've missed the point of the Gospel. Eternal life is a gift from God!

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

[Michael Flynn] become someone who for a lot of his former colleagues, people like Stanley McChrystal who looked at General Flynn and sort of said, this is not the person I thought I knew.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.