His way isn’t the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we’re both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
Don’t think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.
You don’t need to climb a mountain to know that it’s high.
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.
We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.
Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.
Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.
Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels – that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand.
We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.
To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.
Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn’t ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.
I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure.
From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that – for a certain period of time – we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.
A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing – a flower in the process of expressing its potential.
The same goes for envy, anger and insults – said the master. – When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.
A warrior cannot lower his head – otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.