The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them.
To change what you get you must change who you are.
The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.