I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
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My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
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.
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 Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.
The more I study science the more I believe in God.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
Appearance rules the world.