There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.