Occupation: Author Birth: April 5, 1938 Death: October 19, 2008
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future..
The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning..
The other side of every fear is a freedom..
Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns..
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the….
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest..
Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of ….
War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien ideas and alien….
Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order..
If we continue to believe as we have always believed, we will continue to act as we have always acted. If we continue to act as we have always acted,….
It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being bet….
The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illum….
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another….
only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippli….
We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention..
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity ….
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a ….
Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patter….
The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind..
The creative process requires chaos before form emerges..
Transformation is a journey without a final destination..