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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it ... but those who do will become well.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.

Who asks a king for a penny?

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.

We can become slaves to things we don't understand

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind ... The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for
you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.

You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the
mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

You must never fear anything at all.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

Genuine effort is success.

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.