To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.