"Of all things in the world nothing is softer than water, and yet it wears away the hardest rocks. Furthermore, water is humble; it always seeks the low level, which men abhor. But yet, water finally overcomes every thing".
"You teach best what you most need to learn".
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours".
"The mask of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly".
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror".
"Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands and you experience life as a parade of preferences".
"Every person who awakens and sees the goal of life goes through the growing pains of wanting to save humanity instead of first saving himself"!
"As your consciousness expands you cease being critical and intolerant, because you rise above all those foolish, petty human irritations into the realm of peace and harmony".
"Love does not seek to hold, but to give".
"The old saw that we can only see someone’s fault because it is also our own still holds truth".
"The long journey continues, but I have learned to relax in the present, knowing that whatever comes is part of my ongoing, to be welcomed, learned from, and enjoyed. And the paradoxes continue to provide the spice".
"If a man seeks the good life for any reason outside itself, it is not the good life that he seeks".
"Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time".
"Relationship is a mirror in which I can see myself".
"A newly married couple said, “What shall we do to make our love endure?”
Said the Master: “Love other things together”.
"Each time you cling to something to stop yourself from falling, understand that it is falling too".
"The ways for gauging one’s spiritual strength is to find out how often you become disturbed in the course of a single day".
"Anything longed for in this world has two sides, and to ask for one is to demand the other as well".
"To care,
to be fair,
to be humble.
When a man cares he is unafraid,
When he is fair he leaves enough for others,
When he is humble he can grow".
"Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation".
"Anger in any form is a cry for help".
"To hide anything is to keep it. And tight is the grip of guilt".
"A rainbow is a promise".
*Selection of quotations from the books I read in the period of February 1989 – May 1990.
