“We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, p...”

“Our problems dont stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.”

“I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.”

“Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we cant control the body and its appetites, how can we ...”

“There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples production.”

“Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yourself from your own internal peace and harmony which is itself a function of your peace and harmony...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“If Im perplexed by the fact that Im constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head Ive determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.”

“I seem to be torn between 'I wish we'd met earlier' and 'I wish we'd never met'.”

“But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?”

“Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.”

“She usually worked at night, claiming that the racket he made about the house distracted her during the day; she needed silence, total silence, in which to pursue her inspiration - else it fled awa...”