You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

The human mind and what we've achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts

Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.