The spice must flow.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens.
The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerance will true nature be seen.
Waiting is the hardest part.
Hope clouds observation.
The highest function of ecology is understanding consequences.
The addict’s reliance on the drug is a symptom of illness, not its cause.
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror.
It is so shocking to find out how many people believe that no one can win in wars unless there are massive casualties.
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense, but the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
Do actions agree with words? There’s your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
Growth is limited by the amount of ignorance one can bear.
What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things.
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow.
You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. . . . Like it or not, we live in politics.
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. . . . Like it or not, we live in politics.
A human can overcome any burdens with enough willpower.
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror.
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
We’re fascinated by the words, but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
Desire clouded the Mind.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
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