Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

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