So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

We cannot leave the trap until we know we are in it.

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.

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

Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.