It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

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

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate. We're going to do that now. Let's see what we're talking about. All troubled people, which is all people, must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is higher than their own present nature.

Who asks a king for a penny?

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.