“You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.”

We say to others only what we need to hear.

I didn’t fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

That’s where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.

Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.

I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.

Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

There are no physical problems-only mental ones.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.

This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I’m fine that way. I don’t need to be faithful to any concept, you know.

Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.

Fascism is a religious concept.

The clothes are not making me If I like it, that’s all that mattersIt’s not about the clothes. It’s about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.