Whatever you allow in your environment breeds.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

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

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

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

For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

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.

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.

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

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

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

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.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.