Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you.

The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

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.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.