Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.