We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.

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

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life. There is nothing we can DO to gain psychic beauty. It already exists without our effort. We need only be where we belong, that is, in self-union. Then, beauty IS.

When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.

You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.

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.