The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.