Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.