It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

...the Lord of the Universe carries the entire burden of this world. You imagine you do. You can hand all your burdens over to His care. Whatever you have to do, you will be made an instrument for doing it at the right time. Do not think you cannot do it unless you have the desire to do it. Desire does not give you the strength for doing. The entire strength is the Lord's.