You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Answer all the questions. Question all the answers.
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this pers...
What makes people good communicators is, in essence, an ability not to be fazed by the more problematic or offbeat aspects of their own characters. They can contemplate their anger, their sexuality, a...
Excuses are a promise of repetition.
They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
At the end of your life there will be many people you won't be acquainted with.Make sure you are not among them.
You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of human race that are not military and that are...
One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
Know the One - the Self, and you'll know the All.
Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.
Who can see inside the deepest recesses of your imagination and manifest those wishes into your daily experience? Who can appreciate those subtle nuances of character you've acquired by overcoming you...
The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.