Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

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.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.