Recognizing a weakness encourages a strength.

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.

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

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

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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.

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

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.