The power of faith is the fear of the unknown. The power of love is the fear of dying alone.

There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.

Killing is for those with a sick mind.

Story is more akin to the lines on your palm. No matter what your fortuneteller claims, the lines are not maps of your future. They are side effects of the flexion of the hand.

We're eye doctors. What's something about the eye that most people don't realize? The eye doesn't see. The brain sees. The eye just transmits. So what we see isn't only determined by what comes...

Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally...

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

We don't want to eliminate the ego completely. Otherwise we'd be wandering around the house each morning, drinking coffee for hours, saying, 'Who the hell am I?' We need the ego to sustain a sense of...

The heart is what is important. There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have a childhood that was not like mine. I have no real frame of reference, but when I question strangers I've found that their childhood generally...

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to... Dissimulator - an object that exists but pretends not to.

When the will is strong enough, it is astounding what one's mind can do.

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

A characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for us. A symbol also unlocks dimensions and elements of our soul which correspond to the dimensions and...

There is absolutely nothing that can harm the shadow. Nothing. I advise you strongly not try.

Expectations are the rumors we spread inside us.

Change your awareness and your perspective changes.

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coups d'etat on the state of irrational optimism

We're programmed to imagine bad things happening to us, as opposed to good things, even if the good are more likely. It's kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may...

No one can know your strength and weakness better than yourself.

In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and...

Knowing your power is what creates humility. Not knowing your power is what creates insecurity.

Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime against a properly outraged deity... When Liza was about seventy her elimination slowed up and her...

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief... .And supposedly 95% of Americans say they believe in God - that's worrying... .Religions are Trojan horses which conceal profoundly strange psychopathy...

Eisenhower on Patton: Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

You could always call her secretive, masking her feelings beautifully lest anyone intrude into her inmost realm of hidden thoughts. It was a defense Urmila had evolved since childhood.

... the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ...

A staggering amount of people blame their lives for their miseries, but little do they know that one's repeated interpretations of one's life create one's constant feelings.