Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.

Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

You must never fear anything at all.

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

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.