There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

Appearance rules the world.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

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

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

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.

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 Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

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

Ignorance never settle a question.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Man is a universe in little.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

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.

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

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

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.

One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

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.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

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.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.