You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.

Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body.

You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

I am told I was born. I do not remember.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.