Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.

You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.

If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.