A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.

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.

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

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.