“Ask anyone and they’ll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don’t say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That’s because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.”

“The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.”

“True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.”

“The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)”

“Embracing change can be daunting, but it is our willingness to do better that makes it worthwhile.”

“Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/herself first.”

“Poisonous people will try to destroy you when they recognize your power; this is because they fear what you might become.”

“To give power to that which has no bearing on one’s life simply means one is not living their true life.”

“I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed… Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore..”

“What may appear to be the wrong way by other people’s standards may indeed be the perfectly inspired path by which you will arrive at clarity of mind and a more authentic expression of yourself.”

“He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another.”

“To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.”