The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

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

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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 Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

All limitations are self-imposed.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.