Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

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

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 reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way