We'd be nearly half as clever as we believe ourselves to be, if only, knowledge were merely what we know.

We serve what we hold on to. We serve to maintain it, to elevate it, and to defend it. That doesn't imply reciprocation.

We fool ourselves into believing it's dark outside because our minds long ago stopped seeing the stars. Of course it looks hopeless. We've lent the darkness our energy and made it matter having put none into the light.

Nothing limits a mind more than believing that probability equates to possibility.

No amount of beating up on yourself will ever change that you cannot be what you have not yet become, and you have only become what you are. Give yourself a break.

The tale of your life lies in what you've done with what vexes you, not what it has done to you.

Simplification has never been about what you get rid of but what you've kept.

You stand outside the door inside yourself, separated from all that is by only the notion that the door is anything but you.

... people fear remarkably few things yet see them in nearly everything.

There's no solution but that you become it.

It is not within the purview of any man to solve the problems of the madness of men, but only perhaps with a lifetime of efforts and focus himself.

Some worry about what they're missing, others about what they might miss. No matter how far you walk in this world, you'll meet far more people who dare not than do.

There is a you-shaped hole in your mind, and we live as though it belongs there.

There's a difference between disagreeing and disrespecting called understanding.

If you can't laugh at how little you know, then you certainly can't take seriously how much you don't.

The world outside hadn't run into me, I'd run into it.

The simplicity of serenity is that it exists in all that is not what we believe it to be.

If you would understand what it means to be, look at nothing. Even nothing is a thing and has the decency to tell you so upfront, regardless of any insistence that it is nothing at all.

Trading what we have been for what we will be is the act of aging. That's inevitable, and in the fleeting, momentary awareness of that change, the constant rediscovery of our self, we may say we live.

We stand between the problem and the solution.

There are words that express inherent limitations which we accept without knowledge and call reality. Brian Baxter

You can see the world through your mind or walk through your mind and see the world.

You've surrendered your joy to authority that was not your own and made the space through which you are allowed to move too small for the energy within you. Pick up that joy, feel its weight, try it on again, and see how much larger is the space in which you stand.

We seldom stop to distinguish between making the choice and being made by the choice.

Knowledge has no natural enemies. Jealousy and ignorance do.

You look at the truth every day and still don't see it, so start by looking at how you are seeing the world. That awareness is beginning.

Knowledge can only be hidden from minds that wait for it to be given to them rather than seeking it out themselves.

Your path, if it is your own, is a construct of the past. Before you lies wilderness.

Even alone in silence we're assailed by those who think they believe and those who believe they think.

You cannot speak the words of your self through the sentences of others.

It's in the nature of each thing to be different from every other thing, so that all that is may become more than it has been.

Ask that voice in the dark what it's done lately, and while it justifies itself, get on with what you need to do.

The thing about a tree is, if left alone, it will outlive the person who planted it. It provides continuity from one generation to the next and often several more as each adapts to the conditions in which it finds itself. When one decides that the tree's value is only in the wood that can be made from it, they choose to destroy not just the tree but also that continuity and adaptation. The same is true of our children.

I think the saddest thing about being a human is that so few of us can see the world in a way that doesn't require us to be wounded by it.

The greater part of what we know is what we don't know that we don't.

There is in the speech of inconvenience authority not found in those moments uncounted for their equanimity.

We tend to believe that thinking is arriving at some notion rather than going beyond the notion to see what holds it in place. In this way, we remain as children, clinging to an idea of right without having to face its wrong.

What kills us is not what we imagined would do so but that we imagined it at all.

The world seems less dark when you learn to see Pandora bringing hope to the world rather than unleashing terror upon it.

The sole purpose of your senses is to let the world in and only through them may you learn all there is for us to know.

If there is a single principle that enables our understanding of the universe it's that all that is owes its existence to everything that is not. That understanding alone allows for an entire universe to shape itself within something we call nothing, so that even a bird may rise from the ashes of its own destruction.

We fail only as we are, children with the expectation of success.

There are no colors but that your mind makes them, and the mind that can see red knows no other way for red to be.

There is no greater skill than to see in all things that you see only yourself.