Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.