The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.