When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

The moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.

Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.

A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.

No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.

When in doubt, always act on the assumption that people are more honorable than you have any solid reason for supposing they are.

Thought is crude, matter unimaginably subtle.

God's the reason for everything noble and fine and heroic.