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.

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.