If you think you know what your purpose is, but can never seem to gain satisfaction from it, then it’s probably not the purpose you’re destined for.

Be positive. Stay happy and don’t let the negativity of the world get you down.

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which...

Once you understand who you are, you can become more of what you are.

I asked him: Why didn’t you just tell me? He said: ‘If I tell you, you’ll just forget at some critical point. If you figure it out for yourself, you’ll always remember.

A Prayer for Daily InsightOpen my eyes, God. Help me to perceive what I have ignored, to uncover what I have forgotten, to find what I have been searching for. Remind me that I don’t...

discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

…but I’d learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.

You can only fail to pick the Castellan’s pocket once

Well, that’s why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry…fear…is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we...

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see

In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want...

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

It seems to me that my whole life I’ve been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I...

I knew everything! Yet, I’m still not perfect.

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

if you want to be understood …Listen.

Everyone is a fuckin’ Napoleon.

I mean that it’s all right to go to bed with an asshole but don’t ever have a baby with one.

I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.

If you do not know you are in danger, you are that danger. You do not know me, but I come in peace; if you think that is strange, then you are the stranger.

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.””Ah…quite. You are a man of acute insight.””That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee.

When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go...

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce...

Raising right question is awakening; getting its answer is stimulating; But, nothing better than the best is finding the right answer to the right question.

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly...

We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true,...

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

Fate is a lazy man’s excuse for avoiding curiosity.

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything–an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren’t in the power of angels to...

It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long; it would last forever. But it’s just a blink.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn’t quite have.

The benefit of such horizontal interactions – people sharing knowledge across fields – is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

If you talked to your friends the way you talk to your body, you’d have no friends left at all.

I’m not here only just for a visit; but I’m here cuz’ i knew I’m HOME.

Something … made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.

They say that some people come in our life as blessings and others as lessons, but to be specific and precise only simple and humble people with the utmost simplicity in their lives only come...

I can ruthlessly press my imagination out beyond its very edges, and even in such a remote place I have not begun to touch the barest periphery of God’s imagination.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with...

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.