True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love..

The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest at….

Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many. Truth is b….

True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status, make….

You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen or so unpleasa….

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place..

At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the unteth….

Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather t….

The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs..

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade..

We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our inner souls were ask….

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown mome….

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs..

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a ho….

Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must walk mentally ar….

That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how….

Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible ….

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play,….

We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to r….

Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of charac….

To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree, or make s….