With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists.
If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.
I saw myself.... In the time I watched, I saw strength—and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. I...
The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are...
There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.
When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.
Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betrayal and hypocrisy forgotten (repressed) very quickly. But the computer in your subconscious mind for...
True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surro...
Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?
It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to...
No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.
The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless.
If you know who you are, this knowledge will attract people in all types of situation and circumstances to support your intentions and ideas
A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence.
There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trick...
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.