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.

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.

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.

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

Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.