If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.

Power has destroyed many people - not really. Power doesn't destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It's how you use it.

Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.

The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.

When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.

We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.