The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.

Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.

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.

Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

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