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“ Respond to every call that excites your spirit ”

“ I've learned that at precisely those times when life seems to get worse, you may be getting ready to make a leap. When you feel like you are getting nowhere, stagnating, even slipping backward, what you’re actually doing is backing up to get a running start ”

“ The rational mind is a faithful servant; the intuitive mind is a sacred gift. The paradox of modern life is that we have begun to worship the servant and defile the divine ”

“ The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are ”

“ Don’t believe everything you think ”

“ There is a certain failure of language and it is there that you touch the real ”

“ The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is ”

“ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened ”

“ We become stronger in the broken places ”

“ For people to look squarely at their harmful actions and to become genuinely accountable, they must have a platform of self-worth to stand on ”

“ We acquire (virtues) by first having put them into action... we become just by the practice of just action, self –controlled by exercising self-control and courageous by performing acts of courage ”

“ Self-contemplation is a curse … that makes an old confusion worse ”

“ We will always come from a more solid place when we speak from our own integrity and refuse to be silenced by fear ”

“ We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be ”

“ Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance ”

“ Mental disorder and normality are both extremely protean concepts- each so amorphous, heterogeneous, and changeable in shape that we can never establish fixed boundaries between them ”

“ We have only to experience something once to know of its absence in our lives and its possibility ”

“ Maybe happiness is this: not feeling that you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else ”

“ Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think you’ve lost time. There is no short cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is the right time ”

“ If you enjoy it, you understand it ”

“ Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage ”

“ Do not despise your inner life ”

“ Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away ”

“ What you seek, is seeking you ”

“ You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly ”

“ If you want to change what’s going on around you, change what’s going on within you ”

“ No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change ”

“ Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor ”

“ The mind is a reservoir for numerous powers. By utilizing the resources which are hidden within it, one can attain any height of success in the world. If the mind is trained, made one pointed and inward, it also has power to penetrate into the deeper levels of our being. It is the finest instrument that a human being can ever have ”

“ The greatest conqueror conquers only himself. With that conquest completed, the conquest of anything external is the play of children ”

“ The color of truth is grey ”

“ Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else ”

“ In the end, we return to the question, just how much do you love truth? Do you really love truth or are you just curious? Do you love it enough to rebuild your understanding to align to a reality that doesn’t fit your current beliefs, and doesn’t feel 120% happy? Just how much do we love truth? It’s a good question to ask ourselves, I think ”

“ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you… as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others ”

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom ”

“ Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow ”

“ The problems of success can be harder than the problems of failure. The biggest problem with success is the conviction that you are getting away with something, and that any moment now they will discover you ”

“ It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul ”

“ The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify into every corner of our minds ”

“ The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them ”

“ If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves ”

“ Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it ”

“ The Three Rules of Work: 1. From clutter, find simplicity 2. From discord, find harmony 3. In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity ”

“ To create is to give a shape to one’s destiny ”

“ There is no great genius without some touch of madness ”

“ From diamonds, nothing is born / From manure, flowers ”

“ I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them ”

“ The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes ”

“ Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else ”

“ Every act of creation is first an act of destruction ”

“ The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success ”

“ The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems ”

“ The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius ”

“ Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will ”

“ No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness ”

“ When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes ”

“ When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are ”

“ The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind ”

“ To a great mind, nothing is little ”

“ Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand ”

“ I can’t understand why people are afraid of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones ”

“ Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques ”

“ Chance favours the prepared mind ”

“ If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing ”

“ A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered ”

“ To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle ”

“ Creativity is above all the ability to continually ask questions ”

“ One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities ”

“ Your perception will become clear only when you can look into your soul ”

“ Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love ”

“ One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious ”

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

“ Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes ”

“ Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible ”

“ Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say ”

“ I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become ”

“ We may think that we fully control ourselves. However, a friend can easily reveal something about us that we have absolutely no idea about ”

“ Ninety-nine percent of your thoughts are a complete waste of time. They do nothing but freak you out ”

“ The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable ”

“ What is in your way is what is in front of you ”

“ To dissolve a neurotic system, one needs awareness of the symptom, not explanations; just as to dissolve a piece of sugar one needs water, not philosophy ”

“ If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth ”

“ We don’t see things at they are, we see things as we are ”

“ The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned ”

“ Many lovely, sensitive people are inwardly brutalised and oppressed by their superegos. They would never treat others as their superego treats them ”

“ One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision ”

“ The problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work, it’s that you’re destroying the peg. Who is to say, at this point, that the peg doesn’t fit because it is square. It is entirely possible that the hole was cut wrong in the first place ”

“ The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides ”

“ There is very little you will encounter in life that has not been, in some ways, infused with bullshit… Life is about detecting the bullshit, and fending it off as best (you) can ”

“ I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain ”

“ It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again… who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat ”

“ No matter how mundane or ordinary something seems, if you trust that they are remarkable, that they are special, that they are beautiful, and work with them without giving up, they will eventually prove to you, that they are ”

“ Become who you are, consummate your life ”

“ Conflict is the father of development ”

“ The past: our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition ”

“ The longest journey begins with a single step ”