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

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 Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

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

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

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

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.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

Appearance rules the world.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

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.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

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