The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.