A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

Genuine effort is success.

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.