It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it.

Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.

We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand its cause and workings,we overcome it by the very knowing.The primary purpose of meditation is to become more consciousand familiar with our inner life.The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.

These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.