The only people who can really drain your power effectively are people you are very close to, you are open to, you love, or people you are afraid of, you fear.

The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.