We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives.
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.