To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.

Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence.

True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.

Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.