He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.
I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
When you are finished changing, you're finished.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.
There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.
The way to do is to be.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.