If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

You can be effective in this world without stress.

When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But without realization, who you are does not shine forth into this world. It remains in the unmanifested which is, of course, your true home. You are then like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential

Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.