Our human instincts transcend physical survival and include our unique gifting and purpose. When we unleash our instincts to guide us, we discover the special ways we've been equipped, educated, and enlightened to fulfill our destiny. Your instincts are more resourceful, resilient, and responsive than you probably realize.

Instinct and purpose often operate like a marriage.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

The problem is you don't know what your problem is. You think your problem is your main problem, but that's not the problem at all. The problem is you don't know what your problem is and that's your main problem.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.

In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

It's as if attentive people create a magnetic force field for stor- ies the tellers themselves didn't know they had within them.

I soon learned there was a very Indian habit of asking personal questions.

When people say to me, 'What should I tell my daughter?' I always say: The most important thing is to listen. This is how she learns she has something to say.