In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
You should be a person who can establish the Heavenly Kingdom rather than just the one who can go there. Those who can go to heaven are those who wish to be dependent on God, but those capable of building the Kingdom are those who can let God depend on them.
I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.
Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.
Procrastination is another form of resistance