“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

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.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

I’ve realized that somebody who’s tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.