In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.

You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

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

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

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