“Happiness is not the acquisition of anything,
it is the understanding of something.”

“We are frustrated because we demand our answer over the answer.”

“To be like the light we must be in the light.”

“Live freshly every moment by seeing that mere thoughts
about a past experience do not create a present reality.”

“First live in heaven, after which you will live easily on earth, which means
you will not be in conflict when deciding between tea or milk for lunch.”

“One evidence of an empty life is that you are anxious.
You are trying to fill your empty life with _______. Fill in the blank.
(Examples: moneymaking, activities, etc.)”

“Individual receptivity is absolutely everything. Without it,
nothing changes. With it, all things are possible for you.”

‘We suffer only from a lack of self-knowledge.”

"If you let others carry a lamp for you, they may lag or rush ahead,
but carry your own lamp and it is impossible to ever be out of the light."  

“You need not surrender to anything negative – not to anything.”

“The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable — when
lived in fully — of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.”

“Valuable self-knowledge comes through daily self-observation.
Observe your thoughts and acts while neither praising nor
condemning them, but simply to understand yourself.”

“A man understands why his life unfolds as it does
by understanding the operations of his own nature.”

“Lose something before you get it and you will not fear losing it.”

“Protection that really works is invisible, not visible; cosmic, not earthly;
individual, not social; peaceful, not noisy; innocent, not guilty.”

“In a true man, spirit is the king and thought is the obedient servant.
In a false man, thought is the king and the spirit is considered an enemy.”

“Man’s major social illusion is that he can build a society
which is higher than his own psychological level.”

“Neurosis consciously met will eventually weaken and fall away.”

“Right reactions to daily challenges can change the kind of a day you experience.”

“Cosmic confidence grows with the simple realization that truth exists —
which few people really realize.”

“You will be aware when your wish to be aware
is stronger than your wish to be unaware.”

“We can either have our own way, and lose, or lose our own way, and win.”

“Keep always in front of you this simple and good news: With right inner
activity you can replace your wounding confusion with healing insight.”

“Truth is delighted to give us an abundance of rich gifts,
but our cherished ignorance prevents our reception.”

“Higher energy can do something that nothing else can do.
What it can do is to conquer the universe.”

“If a man is insane, and two hundred million
people claim he is sane, he is still insane.”

“Invisible evil is the enemy, not that person or event.”

“When someone hints that he will turn against you unless you
please him, invite him to turn against you at once and with full force.”

“Your best friends are those who make life difficult for you. They help you
see yourself as you really are, and not as you like to think you are.”

“Be true to your original nature and you make every circumstance
a right circumstance as far as you are concerned.”

“The only thing I need is freedom from myself.”

“Life cannot make sense on the level of life.”

“Comparison is the essence of sickness.”

“Seek revelation, not comfort.”

“Conscious ego-defeat is victory.”

“You can’t win but there is winning for you.”

“Serve your true interest, not your self-interest.”

“Only noise makes mistakes. Silence never makes mistakes.”

“The individual has had a problem only with his own wrong thinking toward love.”

“You still want something from man instead of everything from God.”

“Do not resist or complain or fight. Let truth win. If we no longer
value our resistance, something new will break through.”

“You are learning to meet every experience as if it has
no power to cause distress, for it is in fact powerless.”

“Truth is aware of man’s fears, but never accepts
them as his necessary or permanent condition.”

“Always stay on the path of seeing what is wrong,
then you will see what is right.”

“Evil has no power except what we falsely give it.”

“Learning means to see the event so clearly that it cannot repeat itself.”

“True spiritual salvation begins when you see that you are a part of the
mad mob, and that the last thing you want is to be rescued.
You must see how violently you fight your own salvation.”

“Remember, the world is filled with people who do not know
who they are, who spend their lives telling other people who they are.”

“Staying home (spiritually) is where a true spiritual hero is. Don’t go into thought.
Don’t get angry, etc. Just stay home. You’ll see there is something higher.”

“Awareness breaks thought. You can’t be thinking when you are aware.”

“A man’s day is purposeless when he spends it
in unconscious nourishment of neurosis.”

“Confidence must rest in knowledge, not hope.”

“Seek something more important than yourself.”

“False goals and feelings of helplessness go together.”

“The mercy we need is self-mercy, which consists
of ceasing to behave badly while justifying it.”

“We need the wisdom to have nothing to say.”

“Hearing truth is not the same as understanding it.”

“Everyone possesses an internal self-correction
system to which he must connect himself.”

“Self-absence creates self-presence.”

“Avoid nothing. Go through everything.”

“Anything that does not lead you higher is lifeless.”

“Have no fear to not know where you are going in life.”

“Don’t try to solve the problem, rather see through myself.”

“You cannot solve your problem by thinking about yourself.”

“The single most important thing is for you to persist in spite of everything.”

“Entertainment disguised as spiritual instruction keeps many in the human jungle.”

“Let ordinary thinking come to an end, and extraordinary thinking will begin.”

“Ignorance is inferior to intelligence. Intelligence is superior to ignorance.”

The intelligent reaction toward trouble is to ask,
“How can I think clearly toward this?”

“In spite of all appearances we are chained
only by our own lack of clear comprehension.”

“Uplift your inner nature and you will uplift your love-life.”

“God cannot care for the parts of you that cannot care for God.”

“All good things come to anyone who refuses to be intimidated by his own despair.”

“You condemn yourself because you first approve yourself.”

“You really think that something out there hurts you,
not knowing that you are your own hurt.”

“Little by little, step by step, see what happens to you
as you deliberately abandon your rage and hostility.”

     “On Monday you were cruel and on Tuesday you said you were sorry. But on Wednesday you did it again, which means I’m not going to believe anything you say on Thursday.”

     “The other person has a right to his own life and you have no right to demand that he give it to your neurosis.”

     “Fighting inner darkness in the wrong way is the same as submitting to it. Truth will show you how to truly fight for light.”

    “When someone screams out to affirm his position, it is not the position which he values, but the screaming itself. He screams to try to convince himself that he has a position that is real and beneficial. His actual position is in the center of delusion. He is a prisoner in the castle’s dungeon, hallucinating that his position is on the castle’s throne.”