The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

No practice exists in isolation.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.

Ready or not, here I comeI'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seekOlly olly oxen freeShow yourself, you're scaring meCome out, come out, where ever you areYou've taken this thing way too far

There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.

For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

Knowledge is never too dear.

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

Do the difficult thing; you can then have something that you can be truly proud of!

Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.