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.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.