“Freedom is difficult things.”

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

Invited or not, God is present.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

The true leader is always led.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

We don’t get wounded alone and we don’t heal alone.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

One finds one’s destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

It’s very hard to grow because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.