Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.