Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.

Earnestness is the most important thing.

Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.