I’ve been in love before, it’s like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you...

Cuando realmente deseas una cosa, todo el universo conspira para ayudarte a conseguirla.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Cuando queremos a alguien,no nos conformamos con conocer solo su alma,deseamos saber cómo es su cuerpo.

These are people who accept the fire of the Holy Spirit,’ he said, ‘the fire that is left behind but that is used by so few people to light their candles.

If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

I imagined my coffin being closed, and the screws being turned. I was immobile, but I was alive, and I wanted to tell my family that I was seeing everything. I wanted to tell them...

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

In magic – and in life – there is only the present moment, the now. You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. ‘Time’ doesn’t pass. We human beings have...

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you’re not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done,...

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will...

I seek God even though I don’t believe in Him.

You have the subconscious mind that sometimes is attracting tragedy, attracting bad things, because you want to be a victim. Because to be a victim is to justify a lot of frustrations and failures in...

A única maneira de salvarmos os nossos sonhos, é sermos generosos connosco.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.

And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant.

He began to explain to me that vegetation, and especially mature trees, are able to transmit harmony when one rests one’s nerve centers against a tree trunk. For hours he discoursed on the physical, energetic,...

but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After...

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

What’s the world’s greatest lie?’ the boy asked, completely surprised.’It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s...

Those who don’t understand their personal legends will fail to comprehend its teachings.

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn’t fit in with what they were used to believing.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can’t destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface...

When you realized that you would have to ask for help, you did not feel humiliated. And when you learned that someone needed help, you showed them all that you had learned without fearing that...

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even...

Every moment in life is an act of faith

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search...

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture

Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny.

God never abandons His children.

A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because we...

As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings...

If theater is ritual, then dance is too… It’s as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the...

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people who are different from others.’Like you?’On the other hand,’ Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, ‘you...

If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man.

In war, the key to victory is the ability to surprise one’s opponent.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.

Then the voice – which identified itself as the prince of this world, the only being who really knows what happens on Earth – began to show him the people around him on the beach....