Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.

Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

If you begin to identify yourself with that inner awareness, and then you realize you're not really doing anything. As long as there's the thought, "I'm trying to wake up," that thought of "I" is still there.