The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

Seek to know the power that is within you.