Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. . . . They will come to know that the natural tendency of the individual in a group is to forfeit his or her ethical judgment to the leader, and that this tendency should be resisted. And they will finally see it as each individual's responsibility to continually examine himself or herself for laziness and narcissism and then to purify themselves accordingly.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.