We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.

For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience and the thing that you have to do is experience life instead of only reading about it. Reading is very important, but it's not enough. After reading, you have to take some decisions in your hands and move forward and be the human being that you are, and then going and meeting people and work.

After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love.