What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

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.

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

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.