“Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.”

“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”

“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances”

“One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.”

“When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.”

“Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debateare as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements andalarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and itfell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of myfellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in thestrength to keep to it.”