The real does not die, the unreal never lived.

All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.