The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

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.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

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

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.