Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

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.