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

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.

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

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.