The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.