The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them.

You can't come to a new point of view until you realize what your brainwashing has been.

In spiritual matters we remain beginners.

What meditation does mean is a way for us to unlock and open the door to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus began his ministry by proclaiming that this holy kingdom was within us and among us.

What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us.

To what do I attribute our decline? It's far easier to be shocking than charming.

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Creating the new increasingly is more than 50 percent of a top leader's job.

Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you.

When I was little I always wanted to drive a train. That, and become a baker.