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"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition."
"Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge."
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
"Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research."
"To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful."
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls."
"Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you."
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."
"The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire"
"If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude."
"We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become."
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it."
"VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT."
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
"The brighter the light, the darker the shadow."