- There is no end to what there is discover about yourself. There are untold riches buried within.
- All exploration is self-exploration, and it doesn't matter in what world the exploration is done.
- Only by experience can you prove to yourself that within you awaits everything you will ever discover is true about you.
- Within wisdom is more wisdom. Within everything we discover is yet another discovery waiting for us to explore and take into ourselves.
- Part of what draws you to something beautiful is that you want to know what is behind that beauty: the power, the wisdom, the principle.
- "The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who when he had found one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it."
- Wisdom never gets old, because its true nature is timeless; knowledge is already old, because it is a creation of time.
- Love is what starts the journey and love is what finishes the journey. What you love loved you before you even began to wish for it. It speaks to you, but only in wisdom, in things that aren't in thought. So you have to learn how to listen without thought, which is to see.
- This talk is about the need to relate to our own life. Wisdom is meeting the moment open to the life that is trying to talk to us.
- Hidden within old wisdom is new wisdom, but you have to meet the moment wanting to see the lesson in it.
- Find some passage, saying, or piece of writing that you love, and then ask with all of your heart to be shown more about what you love.
- There is no better time for your spiritual development than when things are the darkest.
- Don't give up on the practice of meditation. Rather, give up resisting what is revealed by that practice.
- You can't want to escape from something you've seen about yourself without first having identified with it.