Attempting to escape the suffering exacted upon us by life, and which if endured will lead to meaning, will eventually lead to yet a different kind of suffering which is more intense and meaningless.


Not until we extend ourselves beyond ourselves do we begin to see in ourselves the habit patterns that need transcended.


There are four basics which seem to motivate man: Happiness, money, love, and the fullness of life. The first three are illusions. Only the last one will give man the peace he searches for.


In the unseen regions of the human spirit lies a craving untrammeled by the physical world of possessions, social power or influence, sex and love. It is the hunger and thirst for the right direction.


Every system of religion, every system of psychology, every system of philosophy, is but an underlying search for the right direction.


No one is born a new being. But everyone is born with the potential for becoming so. The choice is always ours.


Is it not astonishing that we allow our culture to mold our personality rather than permit our personality to mold our culture?


Continued observation of the dynamics of human thinking and perception more and more convinces me that there is a deeper aspect to their humanity than is ordinarily utilized.

The horrible pain and utter failure we experience is usually brought upon ourselves by not only our indifference but our blindness to higher values. The greatest failure we experience is the failure to recognize that we are built for success in being, not the success espoused by the world.


What do you choose? Comfort and pleasure, or meaning and purpose. You cannot have both. How long does it take to learn that the latter has greater satisfactions than the former?