When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach
you than when you approach them.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach
you than when you approach them.

What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between
ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve read more

What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between
ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions
between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and
matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so long
forgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul is
nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of
every woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some read more

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,
if thou seest dust.

That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,
if thou seest dust.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the
place where no one else has even been. You have read more

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the
place where no one else has even been. You have to leave the city of your
comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will
discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself.

Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.
It's great for the first two weeks.

Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.
It's great for the first two weeks.