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.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

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.

There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not the problem, you are the problem.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.