she drew me. But not who I see in the mirror. Nia saw the Oscar i keep hidden. And she put him on paper. Nobody sees the real me.

I feel sorry for people who maintain relationships and friendships detrimental to their mental health. Everyone is guilty of it at one time or another- but the idea is to strive to be your best;...

Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower….beautiful in essence.

When you realize that the feeling you have — is — the response you choose, you are free in that moment.

Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.

I accidentally sealed the box shut with my penis still inside, not realizing I may need to use it later. Being in love can be so distracting.

I know the truth now. You’ve figured out I’m falling in love with you and you’re trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won’t work.One way or another, I’m going...

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people’s lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it...

Men do not die on mornings like this:whatever happens then happens in their name,like the lives of obscure saints, who exist only in folk memory.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age – until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

The invitation only world is a manifestation of self-realization.

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges–the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the...

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life...

Hope erodes slowly, over time, until you wake up one night at three o’clock in the morning and realize: I am not meant for that kind of thing.

My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you’ve got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it’s just like falling in love. The feeling of euphoria is only temporary.

I have seen myself backward.

When a blind man says, ‘God is good,’ this should be an eye-opener to those who can see.

This one move, this one intense moment has brought out everything that is hidden deep within my soul.

It’s as if I died too,’ she whispered to herself, ‘as if I was born dead.’Ironically, it was true. Emotionally she knew what her mind did not, beyond logic, beyond reason, as if somehow deep...

Realization hits you several times until you can’t get up.

Both as workers and as consumers, we feel we move in channels that have been projected from afar by vast impersonal forces. We worry that we are becoming stupider, an begin to wonder if getting...

A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of failure–as if it mattered. It seemed to him now that such...

…And you see me now, the perfect incarnation of imperfection…

Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity

The most powerful manifesting is realized by those who walk in love and create through love.

Gillette–The best a man can get.”I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was...

For the longest time I thought I was blind, until I realized my eyelids were just shut. So I unzipped my pants and got on with my life. After I quit the Helen Keller Society,...

Trouble is we end up being worse at saying things well. It’s got to be an inborn fault. Naturally, everyone’s got faults. My biggest fault is that the faults i was born with grow bigger...

The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn’t be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

All matters being spiritual; man or woman can only find peace when peace is realized from within.

Sure, it was scary as hell, and sometimes even now I wake up and wonder what happened to my picture-perfect life. But I’d rather struggle with my uncertainty and fear than continue to live a...

There’s nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I’m challenged. I have to do this on my own.

At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a...

Listen, I’ll share some of the wisdom I learned over the years. When you near the end of your life… when you’re a lonely old man… you start realizing what your accomplishments are really worth....

Everyone says that hope is the feeling that something desirable is likely to happen which gives people the expectation that something good would occur. But the thing is, people hope for something. They only HOPE...

By the time I got to the phone and dialed John’s number, I was out of breath with excitement. “You are not going to believe this,” I blurted out.”What’s the matter?” Hr sounded concerned.”Are you...

All my life I’d been a believing Christian. … But that instant in the ER–the instant Annette [his wife] died–I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too.As I thought more about it in the...

I had a dream about you, you were trying to tell me a pipe had burst but, I did not want to be around you because I thought your feet smelt terrible. When I realized...

I just realized my lips are inside out. They should be turned inwards, because I spend most of my time talking to myself.

Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody “I love you”, when you are considering your children, when you...

We are who people think we are. The reality is irrelevant.

I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.

As of today we have carried out all procedures necessary to start construction, and are ready to start realization of this grand and unique project on Friday.

We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves.

He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so...

A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.

We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.