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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.

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

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

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

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

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

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

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

Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

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

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

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

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

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

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

For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

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

Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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