“Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.”

I am commanded therefore I am.

Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.

Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.

The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged in Southern Comfort and cured with Kahlua and milk.

None better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.

Her smile can cure every heartache and pull a man out of depression – or atleast it did with me.

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.