The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.

The place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise.

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.

The difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul.

To suffer one's confusion is the first step in healing.

The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.

Dare to be an optimist.

IMBALANCE

After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

In code, it never pays to rush.

Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.