If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122)

True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.

If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)

Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.

Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom of the mental lake. Although they go down, they aren’t completely erased. Don’t think you ever forget anything. All experiences are stored in the chittam; and, when the proper atmosphere is created, they come to the surface again. When we do something several times it forms a habit. Continue with that habit for a long time, and it becomes your character. Continue with that character and eventually, perhaps in another life, it comes up as instinct.

Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.