“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.”

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

There is profound responsibility in being Love… more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it.

In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’

Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.