I am light. I am not my age, I am not my race; my soul inside is all light. I am light.

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

For a moment the radio wavered between stationsand I was so busymaking myself marvelous.

There was a difference, I had decided, between knowing and believing. And I wanted both.

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!!

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

... telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.