The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.