I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

People who think they can control their negative emotions and manifest them when they want to, simply deceive themselves. Negative emotions depend on identific…

If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a …

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will, in time, enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

To while away the idle hours, seated the livelong day before the inkslab, by jotting down without order or purpose whatever trifling thoughts pass through my m…

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading …