There are misplaced expectations, once you recognize those, you are only left with smart ones. To "expect yourself" to expect nothing {from others} is going against human psychology. Expectation is...

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.

Just because I know what I want doesn't mean I can have it

I honestly didn't realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it's true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird - dog bite.

Just because anyone can, doesn't mean everyone can.

Sorry. I would be bad for you.

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...

Relationship Time to Aloneness. Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a...

Self importance is pride of a soul.

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

A wave has a right to live her life as a wave, but she must also learn to live her life as water because she is not only a wave. She is also water. And water lives without the fear carried by the...

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

IMAGES: THEY EITHER GUIDE OR MISGUIDE YOU. IT IS THE ORIENTATION / ALIGNMENT OF THE MIND THAT NEEDS TO BE TUNED TO FRAME THE TRUE IMAGES.

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

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

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

I am only human, although I regret it.

Don't believe in every single face that smiles at you. An evil mind is capable of putting up a smiley face.

Nothing distracts one from one's true purpose in life more than following the crowd mentality.

Life is just understanding, people just running but why they run? They don't know

Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity

Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.

Greatness is an opiate.

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.