Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

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

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Our past is not our potential.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.