With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

When you don’t understand how to make a good use of something, you will abuse that thing.

Refuse to react to any angry actions.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

I agree, and a lot of people even within my own party want to give certain rights to people on watch lists and no- fly lists.

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

Don't be logical. You know I hate that.