Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.