I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship-all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. ... [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.

I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.