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.
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.
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.
Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.
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.
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.
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
We can become slaves to things we don't understand
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.
It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
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