Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize it, and ought to take it out, you ought to practice it, you ought to apply it. And most of all, you ought to rejoice in it because you have just heard how not to be wretched, miserable you any more but to be a brand new, and forever brand new man or woman.
One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life. There is nothing we can DO to gain psychic beauty. It already exists without our effort. We need only be where we belong, that is, in self-union. Then, beauty IS.
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.
The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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.
If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time you work toward some goal. Look very closely to discover tense feelings and nervous thoughts whirling around inside. Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
We can become slaves to things we don't understand
You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
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