“Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.”

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the earth are the means by which you evolve.

A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of energy through his or her system.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

Do you love the truth more than you need to be loved, or do you need to be loved more than you love the truth?

Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.

Change in yourself what you want to change in the world.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

You are a dynamic being of Light that at each moment informs the energy that flows through you. You do this with each thought, with each intention.

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality…Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can’t depend on somebody else creating it for you.

Practice moderation in all things except love.

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.