A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.

Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized this process of leaping ahead, however, in part because textbooks tend to tame revolutions...They describe the advances as if they had been logical in their day, not all shocking.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.