We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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.
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.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
