Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.