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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

More often than we realize, people see in us what we don't see in ourselves.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.