When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.

Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others.

Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those things in your life that are worth the effort. Only those who do that will understand the great transformations that are yet to be seen.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Until one day when, as well as his spiritual death, physical death appears; at that moment God will ask: what did you do with your life? We must all answer this question, and woe betides those who answer: I remained standing at the door.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive way of being different.