“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.”
“We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.”
“We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.”
“Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.”
“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”
“In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.”