The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.

The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

However you try to define meditation, it’s not that.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.

In truth to attain to interior peace one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.

Pain is inevitable as it is pareof life as pleasure is.It all depends on how you tackle it either with determination or with frustration

As husband and wife, to have a happy life together, you must have confidence and respect, and you must have substantial agreement in your faith.

The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude.

it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.

Whatever you want you can get, when you understand the secret of will. But wisdom is needed so that you do not use your will abusively because you'll get hurt.

We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.

I'll find you again. Even if it takes a hundred of those years.

It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.