“In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.”

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.

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.