I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.