Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way.

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.