You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

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

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.

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.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

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