A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

If we agree on everything, only one of us is necessary.