Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.

No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.