We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

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

When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

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

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.

Genuine effort is success.