The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

That which is injurious loses its capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that which we emanate.

Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others... At this point, the healed may become a healer.

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.

Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

As there was never any question there was never any answer.

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.