What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.

One must work with time and not against it.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.