The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.

The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is read more

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength read more

Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and read more

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see read more

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world read more

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too read more

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.