A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

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.