All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

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

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.

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

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.

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.

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