“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

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.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

What goes up must come down.

My wife is the best reason to come home.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.