In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself.

There is only one reality - the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive; if it is not of this world that he is conscious, then he is not conscious at all