When we are free it means we are free from being seduced by the immediacy of the situation.


Sorry, but the laws of life dictate that you can’t have it all, and those who try end up losing everything important to them.


When you determine a choice for one thing you exclude another. What you exclude determines what you gain.


Freedom means you are a disciple of reality. And being a disciple of reality means you are limited.


If you don’t discipline yourself, circumstances will do it for you.


When we lose something dear to us, it is not the loss per se that counts so much, but our determination to regain it.


Do you have body experiences, ego experiences, or self experiences? Be careful how you answer for while the body and ego collaborate, the self is independent.


Many concentrate on building the body and/or ego, but few there be that concentrates on building the self. It is possible to build both the body and the self, and the body and the ego, but one cannot build all three at the same time or in the same degree.


Perhaps the person you have judged inferior is in fact superior. But you won’t detect that until the cataracts of your soul is removed and his sins are viewed in proper perspective.


Empathy is one of the most neglected of virtues. You simply cannot understand or sympathize with the sufferings of another until you have walked the path he has walked.

When you take off the mask to yourself you reveal yourself to yourself, and offer the most intimate part of your being to another.


If you go around hiding yourself to another you are engaging in deceit. Are you doing that?


When you truly desire to promote the happiness and welfare of another you have proven your love of yourself, of God, and of the other.


Does your giving reflect a pure heart, or does it represent a means to another end?


Once we have been hurt by the one we love, we have a natural tendency to want guarantees that we will not be hurt again. If one is unwilling to give such a guarantee he does not know himself well, and has made no commitment to the relationship.


A true lover must be willing to suffer for the other’s sake.


A mature person must opt for a particular orientation in life. That is, he must decide to either be open or closed to particular experiences. But, he must make the decision before the experience occurs. If he waits until it is presented it is usually too late.


These sayings to the mature person will be agreeable, even redundant. But to the immature they will either provoke deeper pondering or they will elicit offense and disagreement. Most, however, will not even be aware they exist.


Isn’t it amazing how many people prefer to be ignorant?


There are two kinds of obedience. There is blind obedience in which one obeys for the sake of obedience. The other kind listens to the self, and determines what kind of self one is, and if it is determined to be lacking, embarks on a goal to obtain that which is lacking. True obedience is liberating – it makes one more sensitive in differentiating between truth and error.


When you listen do you hear only what you want to hear and ignore the other? Learn to discriminate, not opinionate!


When you surrender yourself make sure you know what you’re surrendering. It’s better to find out before than after!


Does your main motivation come from within or from extraneous forces?


What impinges upon you, what attracts you, what provokes you, in and of itself is not what is important! What is important is how you respond.


Have you learned the difference between being dependent and interdependent?


We all have freedom of choice, but most people do not understand either that they have it or what it means. What it means is that you have the freedom to choose who you will be. Making the choice however, does not mean making the effort. But it is the first step. Now you have to make a choice to take the second step.


There is another inexorable law of life that we all are required to face. It is the law that says there is an opposition in all things. Are you prepared to recognize the opposition when it comes, or do you just wait until after it comes and has left its damage?


You have all heard the aphorism, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It means that it is better to prevent hurt rather than deal with it after it occurs.


If you want to get through life without stepping on egg shells and examining every possibility and analyzing every motivation, make it easy on yourself by going through the difficulty of changing yourself.

Integration is an achievement; it is not usually an endowment.


Having an apocalyptic experience is not the same as having a mystical one.


Learning to have faith is one thing. Learning to not lose it is another. Better still is learning to get it back once it is lost.
It is not a sudden burst of enthusiastic effort that accomplishes the task, but sustained effort.


Motivation is not accomplished by instant fervor, but by repetition at frequent intervals.


When you see a person mourning you witness mending taking place. He who does not mourn is untouched by tragedy and learns neither wisdom nor true power.


There is a difference between mourning and lamentation. Mourning occurs because one is sensitive enough to recognize the heartache brought about by tragedy. Lamentation occurs primarily because of one’s complaints. Mourning occurs when one is concerned about others. Lamentation occurs when one is concerned about self.


There is a direct connection between a thoughtful person and his capacity to mourn.


Those who are wont to rush aid to those who are starving for food whilst ignoring their starving for spiritual mana are very inept indeed because while their bellies may be filled, their soul remains empty.


Those who think it is manly to withhold tears do not know what it means to be a man.


Those who think they are demonstrating their manhood by having sex do not know what it means to be a man or a woman. Nor do they know the meaning of sex.


For some foolish reason a man is taught when he is a boy to repress his true feelings. Thus a man who thinks he is very strong may in fact be very weak.


When one is lacking needful things of life such as food, water, clothing and shelter, it is hard for them, if not impossible, to concentrate on their spiritual needs. But if one has sufficient food, water, clothing and shelter, and neglects his spiritual needs, he is lacking more than he thinks. Though he is surviving, he is not thriving.


The availability of wisdom is endless. The appropriation of it, however, is rare.


Is there ever a time when you feel significantly insignificant, and yet at the same time supremely important?


If we experience our limits as challenges to overcome them we are on the road to maturity. But they must not be expected to be overcome in a day. Persistence is the key.


You only respect yourself when you have respectful reverence for another person.


If you respect another person you are not seduced by another’s sensuality or attractiveness.

Even when one violates a law in total ignorance, even if he does it with good intentions, he will, nevertheless suffer, or cause another to suffer. That is the inevitable result of the violations of laws whether we know them or not. Therefore, don’t you think it behooves us to know them?


There is so much needless suffering in the world. And most of it is imposed on innocent people. All of it could be easily and instantly prevented if people would just learn the laws of their own natures and the unique laws of their relationships.


Yes, we all are born with appetites. But why let them control us? Just who or what is in control anyway; the appetites or us? Oh, you say, but I must be satisfied. But what are you going to do when circumstances won’ let them be satisfied? Are you then going to obsess and make yourself miserable because you cannot be satisfied and never will be?


People with high ideals are often decried by those who say they are unrealistic. However, though people with higher standards admit they have appetites, they deal with them with courage, meekness, and finesse, unlike those who don’t deal with them at all.


Those who think they are facing all the facts are not facing the facts of their personalities.


A person with high ideals who works his whole life long to change people will most likely fail. Some who hear the word will reject it. More will hear it, try it for a while, become discouraged and give up. Most will not even hear it at all because they are simply not interested and are too busy “having fun.” It is not that he has failed in converting others that count so much as that he converted himself and tried with courage and humility to live his ideals, even though he has to do it alone.
Those who are not ready will have to experience suffering until they are ready.


It is a wise person who knows his weaknesses and stays away from situations which brings out his weaknesses.


Not doing the wrong thing may be good, but the question is; did you refrain from doing it with a pure heart?


You may achieve a certain degree of content if you respond to the vicissitudes of life with gritty resignation, but if you do so you will never experience the glory and enthusiasm of maintaining high ideals.


What one sees in the world depends on his spiritual occularity; not on whether or not he needs glasses for his eyes.


How one responds depends on the nature of his being rather than on the nature of the stimuli.


The idealist does not assume that the telescope through which others see the universe is less strong than his, but that he is looking at a different galaxy.

What is attractive and appealing may in the long run become unattractive and unappealing.


The idealist does not believe that he is out of touch with reality, as he is often accused; he believes that others are.


If you put off until tomorrow what could have been done today you forfeit the blessings of today for a tomorrow that never comes.

There are many who believe that knowledge of the Bible, and of moral principles, will automatically result in religious and moral behavior. This is decidedly not true, as any acute observer and psychological counselor well knows. You simply cannot shame people into being good, nor can you educate them into being good, they have to change from within. They then do good, not because of their knowledge of principles, but because they are good. Religion should, therefore, teach people to change, not just teach them morals and principles.


Religious faith is often thought of as just one thing. But it is more complex than that. There are at least three types of religious faith. The first kind may be called intellectual faith. This kind of faith is derived from such reasoning as the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the teleological argument. The second kind of faith is called credulity faith. In this kind of faith the believer believes anything he is told by authorities or tradition. The person who possesses this kind of faith believes all the doctrines of their particular church or religion without question. Another name for this kind of faith is blind faith. The third kind of faith is revelatory faith. It is a faith given to one by some invisible power. In this kind of faith the person “knows” but cannot explain how he knows.


Just because a person cannot explain why he believes and cannot trot out all the empirical evidence to prove his point, is no reason to invalidate his beliefs. He just may know something you don’t.


The reason some people do things of which they know better, is because they have not made a commitment to their being, to their unique relationships, and to life. If you haven’t, don’t you think it’s about time you did?


You can be aware and careful without being foolish and stupid.


Merely doing something because it is your duty may be good, but it is not holistic. Do something because you hunger and thirst after it, not because it is just your duty to do so.


If you do something that hurts another, you are faced with three major choices: You can sincerely, with broken heart and contrite spirit, truly repent and ask the hurt one for forgiveness, and work with him or her to overcome his or her hurt. Or you can decide to leave the relationship and enter another one which has different laws. Then you have to decide which choice is best.


One of the great secrets of life is to make choices which limit other choices.


Life hands us all choices which are inescapable. But to make other choices which burden us with additional choices is foolish.


Life seems to have so many choices which lead us either to confusion or despair. But handling them all is really simple. All you have to do is make a solemn commitment to do what is right rather than do what is convenient.


Once upon a time an orator declared, “I accept the universe.” One of the moderators commented, “She’d better.” The point is, while we do not have control over the universe, we do have control over ourselves. Moreover, whoever tries to live by the laws of the universe instead of trying to fight them, will be a much better adjusted person.


For people to not expect to suffer for their violations of universal laws is the most ludicrous of expectations.


It seems to be a common characteristic of man to want to set aside the laws of their own being, the laws of their relationships, and the laws of life in general when they are faced with the natural and inevitable consequences of their acts.

Don’t you find it fascinating that many people are so impressed with the unimpressionable? Now, before you trot out your arsenal of self-defenses and enter that safe haven known as denial, be it known to you that there are some people more enlightened than me who are of the same opinion. Of course I realize that, having said that, that people who should read this will not even be aware of it. Ignorance, it is said, is bliss. That may be so but it is a false bliss.


Love may be a many-splendored thing for a time, but if it is applied inappropriately it turns into a many- unsplendored thing.


Why is it that acts deleterious to both the individual and society as a whole are accepted with such cool detachment and tolerant insipidity?


The shrewd and the clever are not as smart as they think they are because their shrewdness and cleverness often lead them to out-smart themselves.


Raucous music and swivel-dancing is neither music or dancing! It is just loud dissonance and pelvic gyrations.


Auditions for T.V. shows like “The Great American Idol” bring out the least talented who are convinced they are the most talented.


Common sense and logical theories cannot themselves alone solve the problems of the spirit. Only a spiritual application can have a spiritual effect.


The keenest minds we know are sometimes the dullest minds there are.


Do you get the impression that I speak in sweeping generalities and that something remains unsaid? If so, you are right. However, I do so deliberately because I am trying to encourage you to think for yourself. Thus, I speak the generality and leave it to you to discover, or work out the specific.


If the truth about everything were to be suddenly revealed we would be astonished at how often we have been lied to, and how wrong we have been.


A lie is sometimes not blatant, but subtle, and is often cleverly presented as the truth.


The interesting thing about habitual liars is that they believe their lies to be the truth.


It is not lies alone which do us damage, but withholding the truth.


Lies cleverly arranged eventually become unconscious lies. But they are
lies, nevertheless.


Some people are immediately turned off to religion by a “Thou shalt not” attitude. It is readily admitted that this attitude can be carried too far. But it is also true that it is often not deeply pondered, seriously considered, and not carried far enough. People often reject religion because they feel guilty for doing, or having done, what “Thou shalt not.”


If the outer decree does not conform to the inner attitude it does not mean the outer decree is false. Maybe the inner attitude is.

What may not be universally applicable may be individually applicable. And what may apply to me may not apply to you. Oh, says the philosopher, then there are no eternal verities. You miss the point! There are both! But it takes a discerning and careful mind to determine which is which.


Thoughtless people answer one absurdity with another one.


The atheist would have only glory. No opposition, no struggle, no pain, only goodness. Oh, so you would have Him deny you the right to disbelieve and deny others the right to believe? So what would we have then? A world of coercion, rebellion and chaos!


Aren’t we reading something into reality when we interpret it from the lowest we know rather than from the highest we know? Isn’t mind and will, love and compassion, meaning and purpose, and other intangible attributes of man just as much a part of reality as atoms and molecules?


Man has a penchant for reducing complexity to simplicity, the unexplainable to what he thinks is explained, the transcendent to the ordinary, and thus gets himself further and further from the truth.


If one declares that the effect of religion in his life has been negligible perhaps it is really because he has been negligible.


If one complains that religion is ineffective perhaps it is because it hasn’t been tried. Or tried long enough! Or sincerely enough!


If one wants to have a rich life he has to spend some of himself.


Just as a strong body may be a cover-up for a weak mind, so a weak body may be a cover-up for a strong mind.


The next time you are tempted to deny the efficacy of religion, ask yourself this question: If I sincerely lived the noblest teachings of religion would I be mentally healthy or unhealthy?


Not everyone who declares he is a prophet; not everyone who writes a book; not everyone who creates a product or a program; not everyone who vows he knows the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; not everyone who has a high I.Q and a string of degrees from prestigious universities, is necessarily honest. Generally his greed for money or fame eclipses the truth.


Politicians are very adept at convincing people that their lies are the truth, and the people who elect them to office are often ignorant, uninformed or ill-informed people who are easily duped into believing

Atheism is often spoken of in terms of cold intellectualism, but that is usually the excuse one uses to hide from himself and from others the fact that at some point and time in his life he has been unloved.


Facts have limits. One of them is inappropriateness. Another one is that they often hide the truth and lead us astray.


Many of us are committed to half-truths as if they were the whole truth.


Does the thought of God dismay you? Are you offended by morality? Does the subject of religion arouse your ire? Then perhaps it is you who is presumptuous and not the person or persons you blame.


Agnosticism and atheism is like a page torn out of the middle of a book. We know neither its context, its beginning or its afterward.

Most true believers will agree that the ontological, cosmological or teleological arguments for the existence of God are inadequate. They rely more on discernment than on raw intellectualism.


Total reliance on intellectualism is a sign of immaturity. The power of discernment, on the other hand, is a sign that one has at last become mature.


If your faith has been shaken to its foundations, perhaps it was a false or incomplete faith, and life is now ready to build a new edifice.


Having lost our faith and trust in life is very painful, but it is sometimes necessary in order that a new foundation be built.


If we want to evolve and grow, then we must learn to endure the pain of the process. Remember the old adage: “No pain, no gain.”


The partial man will think partial thoughts, and feel partial feelings.


The reasons that make some people atheistic are the same reasons which make some people very religious.


While thousands of people in the brutal concentration camps of the Nazis declared “Now I know there is no God,” there were some who declared, “Now, I know there is a God.”


It is a fallacy of the most unfair kind to presume that because a man believes in God he ought to always be supremely happy and never suffer.


It is not a question of “can He,” but “Will He.” Thus God is not wholly omnipotent. He does in fact limit Himself by the laws of His own creations. What? You expect Him to respond by whim and caprice just to satisfy your personal notions? Just how do you propose that he make water not drown us and at the same time float a ship? How do you propose He make it rain on the pumpkin patch but not the paved road? How do you propose that God grant some people freedom of choice and deny it to others? Would you make of him a respecter of persons? Or violate His own laws?

Even though you may mean well, the tone of your voice conveys more effect than the words you speak.


Think about this: Sometimes our love is a cover-up of our hate.


Isn’t it interesting: Dense, unenlightened people brag about their simplistic notions, equate elitism with intelligence, are confident that they are the only ones who have the truth, and yet are unknowingly grounded in ignorance?


Are you angry with your spouse? Maybe it’s because you are really angry with yourself.

Never make an important decision while you’re in a bad mood. Moods are transient and temporary. Don’t take this lightly, now. For many people this is a hard lesson to learn.


There is too much false interpretation of the invitation by many psychologists to accept ourselves. Yes, we must accept ourselves, but don’t use that as an excuse to not change ourselves.


Many people who are often offended by others have already offended themselves.


Don’t you think it’s about time to get rid of all those compulsions and hang-ups that have been stalking you and governing your life for so many years?


Death is not the ultimate evil although evil ones are deluded into thinking it is. No, the ultimate evil is the failure to love.


The most accomplished and the most applauded are not always the wisest and best.


It is far more important to genuinely love a person than it is to solve a problem.


I have learned by sad experience that education and learning, books and prolific readings, university degrees and certificates, accomplishment and honors, talent and applause, high I.Q and knowledge, position and power, notoriety and fame – none of them individually or in the aggregate, lead to happiness. Nor do they lead to assurance! All of them – every single one and all – eventually leave us and become but a vague memory, and we stand alone only with who we are.


The time in which we walk up and down in the earth is a gift of life to us. The legacy we leave behind is our gift to the gift. And thus one of our purposes in life is to be a giver of gifts.


Sometimes, when in solemn hours we nurse our sadness because we think others whom we love has let us down, it may in actual fact be because we have let ourselves down.


If we have learned to love others, but not ourselves, we have still not learned to love.

Many religious people are more committed to creeds than they are to the most blessed teachings of their religion: forgiveness and tolerance.


Some religious people fail to achieve balance in their faith. They are so committed to forgiveness and tolerance that they permit themselves to be used and abused by evil persons masquerading as good persons who take advantage of them. They have been duped by their very virtues to believe that there is no sin or evil people in the world.


Prophetic religion, depth psychology, existential philosophy and esoteric mysticism, have always taught that man is a responsible being and that the main constituent of his life is free agency. It has also taught that while man has the incipient power within himself to change, he cannot complete the task alone. There are extraneous divine powers ready to assist him, but they are in a state of suspended animation and wait for the individual to take the first step.


We cannot assess our own progress. We may be further advanced than we think we are. On the other hand we may be less advanced than we think we are.


Man looks on the accomplishments we have made. God looks on the condition of the heart we have made.


Please don’t consider me a cynic or a rebel if I announce what history has revealed: Organized religion, in spite of promulgating many benefits, has also been the cause of many morbid consciences, abject confusion about the self and about reality, and have persuaded its adherents to be satisfied with surface interjections instead of inner development.


A wise religion does not consist merely of sects and orthodoxies, or stirring speeches and charismatic personalities, but address the issues which face man in his struggle to find sense in his life, to quest with the hurting soul why he hates instead of loves, why he is so afraid, why he has lost his faith in himself, in others and in God. And help him not only to understand but to overcome, and become.


Children do not usually distinguish between fact and fantasy, and neither do they ponder the consequences of good and evil. They must be taught these things by their parents. Are you still a child?


One of the things I have sadly learned by my experience in this life is not to be too dependent on people because sooner or later they will betray you. The only way out of this sore dilemma, it seems to me, is to be dependent upon God. This is easier said than done if one loves deeply another. What then, is the difference between love and dependence?


There is a religious philosophy taught by some teachers that we should learn to love God first, and then we are given the power to love man. I wonder sometimes though, if it isn’t the other way around?


“Will power” is a poor substitute for “internal power.”


You must first be good to yourself before you can be good to others.


Man is a conglomerate of unrealized potential.


Remember this, oh you who think no one is looking. Your act affects generations you cannot see and who cannot see you.


If we would remember that our acts of today, whether they be good or bad, make the circumstances of tomorrow, perhaps we would be a little more alert and a little more careful.

Don’t you find it rather interesting, as well as perplexing, that man, afflicted with psychic anxieties, stricken with economic woes, assailed by emotional conflicts, mocked by mental and emotional challenges, attempts to solve these problems by drugging himself with alcohol or drugs, fatiguing himself with loud and noxious music, or indulging himself in sexual liaisons, all of which further pits himself against himself?


Wouldn’t it be nice if we could change ourselves by swallowing a pill, or taking a course three nights a week for four months, or attending a week-end seminar, or spending an hour listening to the harmonies of Beethoven? But we indulge ourselves, and our money, in a grand illusion if we think so!


It is a supreme fallacy that if we probe deeply into the psyche of the human mind we will discover a devil there. On the contrary, if we probe deep enough we will find an angel there. But it cannot emerge by itself. It needs help. From you!


We all have incredible powers of goodness within us, but they demand collaboration with us before they can garner their strength.


When are you going to find out who you really are instead of whom you think you are or who you have been told by others you are?


Psychology is not enough; philosophy is not enough; understanding is not enough. They provide keys to the good life, but they are not the good life itself. All of these are important avenues to truth, but they must be supplemented by an internal makeover.


Many people do not understand what religion is. They think it is going to church, reading the scriptures, attending meetings, being of service, etc. While these are important they are not complete. Many who do them are hypocrites. True religion is internalizing the accumulated wisdom of the ages so that they act in accordance to what they are or are in the process of becoming. They walk the walk instead of just talking or preaching about it.


Many are they who are intellectually full, but emotionally empty. And many are they also who are emotionally full but intellectually empty. When a balance is achieved one will then be spiritually filled.


I am far more impressed with that humble soul who is bowed low in sorrow but is mightily struggling to find his faith and walk with God – he is the real hero of life - than I am with that pompous preacher who denigrates him because he “lacks faith” or has “lost the spirit.”


No one who has not lost his faith can know the struggles he undergoes to regain it. It may not be easy to regain it, but once he does, it is usually stronger than before he lost it.


Despair is a temporary response to heartbreak and is a precursor to hope. Despair will disappear when the heartbreak is healed.


Yes, it is true; some lack faith or, and has lost the spirit. Then instead of accusing them, help them find it!

Seek not to pursue the easy way. If you do you will discover that your life will be hard.


Life is not always something to be deliberately pursued, for life “happens.” No, it is our task to find meaning and purpose in it.


If the miseries of life make you an atheist, perhaps it is because God is trying to get your attention.


The biggest illusion we habitually believe in is that social peace can be legislated. Social peace and international harmony will never be achieved unless individuals stop engaging in civil war with themselves.


I see it happen every four years. The politicians pompously proclaim that if we just vote for them our problems will all be over. And the majority of the voting public votes for whoever is most charismatic and clever, and tells the most lies.


Don’t you get tired of voting for the lesser of two evils?


As long as man continues to be man he will inevitably face crucial problems.


No thinking person will doubt that social conditions determine our individual responses, and that unfair economic circumstances create dilemmas which not only sorely taxes the human spirit and cause incredible personal suffering and aggregate miseries. However, should we not view the whole from a higher vantage point and learn to handle our neuroses with greater finesse and manage our psychic needs with greater artistry?


It is not so much what happens to us that counts as much as what happens in us.


Somehow, in some way, it is vitally incumbent upon us to stop this misery we perpetuate upon ourselves. Why do we hate ourselves, and others? Why do we so often become afraid and can’t figure out why we do? Why do we lose faith, in ourselves, in our friends, in life, and in God? The answer is so simple; it escapes us because we search for answers that are so complex. We need to reach down deep into the labyrinths of our being and change it so that love can permanently abide there. Not until then will you have peace of mind. Oh, you say, its easier said than done. Yes it is, but the secret is, it can be done, and you can do it. The question is; will you do it?


Maybe your prayers bounce off the ceiling, seem unanswered, and you conclude from this that God is not there. Perhaps it is because you are praying for the wrong things, which if answered as if God were Santa Claus, would be detrimental to you. Perhaps you pray with words rather than with soul and though you may be impressed with your eloquence, God is impressed with a broken heart and a contrite spirit.

The popular beliefs and rigid dogma promulgated by some theologians and pharisaical types obscure, or make rocky, the path upon which pilgrims searching for the truth travel.


When you finally get in touch with yourself you will discover that you have a fundamental longing for something. What is it?


You either stagnate, or advance, or retreat, but you never stand still.


Whether you believe it or not does not constitute its validity.


To seek, or not to seek; that is your choice.


Whatever you seek, persist and you will ultimately find it. Or it will find you! So, what is it you seek? Is it comfort, or purpose? Is it pleasure, or meaning? Is it lust, or Desire?


Dilettantes beware. You will get just about as much as you put into it. And remember: the best things require more effort.


Know ye not that there are regions of the human spirit which cannot be touched by physics, or fully explained by a glib tongue?


Someone aptly said; “What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to Him.”


The pangs of failure and pain in this mortal world are the birth-throes of our transition to a greater world.


It is our spiritual blindness which separates us from our mortal possibilities.


Do you allow your unconscious appetites to control you and determine your behavior, or your conscious evaluation?


Be careful of your explanations for you may merely identify and define yourself.


He who repeatedly defends himself accuses himself.


Persistence without change results in death of the spirit.

We need to convert what is currently actual, into what is possible and what is possible into what is probable, and what is probable into a different kind of actuality.


Some people who think they are very close to God are actually very far from Him.


Remember the old saying, “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die?” Well, if you eat, drink and be merry tomorrow you will die!


Too many people, especially politicians and preachers, make words more important than being.


Transformation is not the work of one day, nor is it the play of children, or the sport of youth whose emphasis is on having fun and dissipating their energies.


Rebirth has its uneasy challenges. It is not a sudden occurrence, but a continuous and persistent process.


If you decide to enter the spiritual realm, be prepared for demands higher than all others. But though its standards may be difficult, the ultimate rewards are greater than any you ever dreamed of. Alas, many people will never know these extraordinary rewards, nor even be aware that they exist.


There are at least two things which prevent a person from achieving transformation; the flaws in their own personalities and the flaws in their society. Yet, in spite of this, those who are committed to the task eventually overcome these obstacles.



One cannot love another merely by obeying the principle of love. In order to genuinely love one must be love.


Obeying the principle is only the beginning of the process. One must first make a commitment and then continue by determined will. At the end or conclusion of the process one acts not because a good principle tells him he ought to but for no reason at all. He does what he does automatically because that is the kind of being he has become.


To be grounded in being and essence is to grounded in the spiritual essence of the universe, not exclusively to the material earth.


Oh, wouldn’t it be wonderful if people would learn that their choices make their circumstances?

Cease being a stumbling block for people and giving them a reason to not believe in God.


Don’t you realize yet that there is a light shining through you, and also darkness? A sensitive person will pick up on whichever you manifest and will either be elevated by it or denigrated by it.


What may be interpreted by us to be a harmless event may be utterly devastating to another.

Sometimes our hard-earned wisdom fails us, our most astute philosophical analysis is barren, and the clever and meaningful phrases we have learned from our readings are disremembered. Even the consolation offered by our friends falls to the ground inert. It is at such times that we just must stand and take the blows. And rely on unknown and unseen powers to help us.


To love yourself properly is not to abandon yourself to the folly of the moment.


People reading these sayings may fear that eradicating something in themselves is giving up themselves. Not so! We are talking in these sayings not so much eradication as replacement and transference.


Do you ever pause to contrast what you are and what you could be?


When you are in the Light be careful that you don’t cast a shadow. It becomes necessary therefore, to remove the obstructions around you.


Oh, we can, if we so choose, drive the spirit out and away from us. But if we do so be prepared for life to lose its savor.


What may taste so good in the beginning may later turn into a sour stomach. Be careful, therefore, what you eat.


Death is the final detachment from an old consciousness in order that you may have a new one.


It may be trite but it is true, nevertheless: Don’t put off until tomorrow what should be done today.


Don’t reject a truth just because it is trite.


A sure way to incur the wrath of life is to always say “I” instead of “We.”


When a person finally succeeds in renouncing all the superfluous claims of his troubled ego he will begin seeing life in ways he never saw it before, and he will learn that yesterday’s terrible offense has turned into today’s mere trifle, and tomorrow’s infinite blessing.


If there is anything that depth psychology, acute philosophical analysis, and deep pondering teaches us it is that the concrete human being has the capacity to develop spiritual attributes and lead a better life.

God does not dwell in your understanding, however astute, nor in your will and memory, however powerful, nor in your knowledge of religion or the world, however extensive, but in the depths of your soul. And from these depths come the meaning and expression of all these other faculties.


In all thy learning, learn to be genuine.


Becoming true to one’s self, and others, is the process of becoming like God. Being true to one’s self and others is God.


If you’re going to clean up your act you have to cast out all the pain in your heart, fear, envy and uncontrolled passion from your soul, and follow what is stronger than you.


There is no promise that your life will be easier if you follow the spiritual Way. But your burdens will be lighter so that you can better carry them.


Happiness is freedom from pain. Joy is the ability to endure it while learning from it.


What you assiduously seek seeks you; what you relentlessly pursue, pursues you; and what you earnestly flee, flees you.


You have not lost yourself or given up yourself if you surrender yourself to an ideal which transcends yourself.


What you initially perceive as loss may ultimately prove to be gain.


Do not for long lament your weaknesses, for they are intended to be turned into strengths.


Sorry is the man who indulges his weaknesses, for while they may be pleasurable for a time, he renders himself weaker, and as he grows weaker the pleasure dissipates. It is only by overcoming them that he becomes stronger.


You may not be able to pay completely your secret debts, but you can feel sorry for them, and repent of actions which caused them.

Idealism, moral insight, stringent endeavor, are all good, but they are insufficient to make the internal changes we desire viable and permanent. In order for that to occur we must be assisted by a reliable power outside ourselves; i.e. God!


A rich imagination is a good thing – until it turns into imaginative suffering.


We must look at our faults and weaknesses not as the pharisaic moralist would do – with devaluation and interminable shame, but as a curious scientist would do, with objective research. And as the philosopher would do, with deep analysis. And as the true religionist would do, with compassion and love.


It is a mistake to assume that all people are intrinsically good and seek for ways to overcome their weaknesses. There are some people whose recklessness, sensuality, and wantonness pleases them and which lie at the depths of their unconscious life. These people do not value loyalty and kindness. They do not hunger and thirst after righteousness and deem their dishonesty to be the truth.


What seems now to be so hostile, so untrustworthy, may, both in our most perspicacious moments, and eventually by the passage of time, become that which is most friendly and trustworthy.


Perhaps he or she who does such terrible things to us and which causes us such awful suffering, are suffering themselves and in their own distorted way are calling out to us for help.


Sometimes he who we think is our worst enemy turns out to be our best friend. Let us remember that perhaps we have been someone’s enemy too.


The greatest treasure we shall ever find is usually hidden under a rock in a field that we must dig. It is Humility! And the field that we are required to dig in is our own soul. Once it is possessed we desire that all should have it but we discover that we cannot give it away; it must be searched and dug for by the other.


Is your spirit torn? Is your heart bewildered? Is your mind angry? Is your soul in pain? Then cease to nurse them; instead learn to love and they will go away.


Ignorance and stupor can lead to as much pride as knowledge and
esteem.