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

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.