Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.