A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.
Don’t think that you must involve yourself with complex intellectual philosophies. Don’t try to be profound or educated. That only wears you out. Just be simple. Let everyday life be your teacher.
Circumstances are conquered simply by having no egotistical need to conquer them.
The true way of knowing yourself includes neither self-praise nor self-blame, but only a wise silence.
Think of happiness as a state of inner liberty. That is exactly what it is. It is never anything else. It will help if you forget the word happiness altogether. Substitute the term inner liberty. It works favorably upon your thinking habits. It connects inner liberty with the genuine meaning of happiness. And that puts you on the right track.
Rushing emotions have no more real power to sweep you away than a tiny brook can move a boulder.
Your level of mental awareness attracts the habitual life you lead.
A self-working individual will be sitting around home one day when the startling thought occurs, “Here I am, sitting around, doing nothing of interest, nothing to hope for, no one to talk with-and I am not depressed.
You command a condition by having no negative attitudes toward it.
Just as darkness cannot put out a candle, evil has no real power over goodness.
Doing good to someone in order to reduce self-guilt will only ruin things for both of you.
What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, ‘Who is living my life for me?’ Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?
Regrets at losing social or financial opportunities are both delusion and needless pain.
There is great wisdom in asking, “How can I get out of this?” There is even greater wisdom in asking, “How did I get INTO this?
Inner liberation can be described as a condition in which you no longer take either credit or blame for anything.
Your unhappiness consists of what you cannot be told about yourself.
A person radiates what he really is, not what he imagines he is, and attracts what he radiates.