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.
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.
The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.