“When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”

“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.”

“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.”

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

“If you don't clearly understand what you are looking for in a teacher or in internal work, you will inevitably accept someone else's agenda as your own. While you may start internal transformative work on the suggestion or advice of another person, at some point your practice has to become a response to your own questions about life and being.”

“You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.”

“When you willingly give up your own happiness for someone else, that is the sign of true love.”

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

“You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else's path.

You are not on your own path.

If you follow someone else's way,
you are not going to realize
your potential.”

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”