“Indecision may or may not be my problem.”
“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
“Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart s state.”
“[I]t doesn’t matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don’t know who you are, or if you’ve forgotten or misplaced her, then you’ll always feel as if you don’t belong. Anywhere. (xiii)”
“You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.”
“He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.”
“Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!”
“If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It s as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.”
“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn t doing it.”
“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox s or bear s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”
“Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.”
“There s a mess inside you: You clean the outside.”
“If I ever leave this place- I ll make sure I m better HERE first.”
“Though you might conquer in battle A thousand times a thousand men, You re the greatest battle-winner If you conquer just one - yourself.”
“Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”
“I have seen myself backward.”
“The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it s about yourself. If you don t want to know the truth, you ll do anything to disguise it.”