We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal.

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.