Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.