If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.
People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.
When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
The world is right because I feel good.p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
As one man said, “I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it.” That’s what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.
Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn’t tolerance but condescension.
The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!