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.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

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.

Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.