We all seek for what is likeable, what is enjoyable. But what is likeable or what is enjoyable may not be the best for us. None of us like to suffer, yet suffering may be exactly what we need. Choice, decision, implies suffering; otherwise we merely evolve but don’t become.


In the rhythms of the world, which we think is everlasting, is a strange, unseen, often undetected, redeeming grace which, if we collaborate with it, erases all our failures and introduces to us our escape from this mortal trial, and thrusts us into a transition to better things.


Out of the quagmire of our mistakes, out of the dilemmas, perplexities and consternations of our lives, is a constant, albeit subtle, reminder of our eternal destiny, and an invitation to develop a larger heart.


Persistence without change of heart constitutes raw stubbornness and is not the virtue often supposed.


Why is it so few ever find the Way? Because they don’t pause to define themselves! They act more out of impulse than out of thought. They have a viewpoint rather than a point-of-view.


There is no more pressing need than finding the Way, yet people generally do not search for it because, in the first place, they are asleep, and in the second place it isn’t easy. The process of achieving it is arduous and long – no instant gratification here – no quick-fix here – and requires a fundamental reorientation of the entire personality.

The greatest illusion of man is that he cannot change! “I am the way I am” is the regular utterance, conscious and verbal, or unconscious and unspoken, of most people. Thus do they fix themselves in stagnation! Yet if they unscrambled their will and woke up they would see their incredible capacity for change.


What enters into man determines what exits from him.


The greatest advice ever given to man is this simple invitation: “Think on these things.”