Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."

All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.

The only way to change is by changing your understanding.

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

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion