Interesting thing about failure: Those who have never or seldom experienced it have never or seldom stretched themselves beyond their grasp.

When we try anything there is always the risk of failure. And when we fail, yes, it hurts. When we are disappointed, especially in ones we love and trust, we hurt. And when such hurt ensues, after so many prior hurts, maybe we just don’t have the internal resources anymore to try again. If so, then we must lean on someone when we are not strong. Maybe that someone is the very one, now repentant and contrite, who hurt us. Maybe now it is he or she who will save us.


Be careful before you put all your trust in mammon, for mammon has a history of betrayal. He who appears to be wisest and strongest may prove to be unwise and weak.


Hearing with your ears is one thing; hearing with your soul is quite another.


Finding meaning in sound comes from hearing with our ears. Finding meaning in the silence means hearing with the soul.


You will never attain or obtain the highest and best if you don’t first learn to renounce the lowest and worst.


What you try so hard to keep may be exactly what you need to let go in order to have something better. On the other hand, maybe you already have the best and what you intend to let go may be exactly what you need to keep.
The greatest challenge in life, obscured by a multitude of temporary pleasures, is to discover our higher self.


Whenever we touch another human body we are touching a holy and sacred thing. Be careful, therefore, how you touch it.


Smart people often fail because they are in a world controlled by dumb people.


Some people are often intellectually smart but intelligently stupid.


Have you decided where you want to go and how to get there? Or are you just drifting hoping that the currents will favor you and get you there?


Do we allow the age in which we live to influence us, or do we influence the age in which we live?