“Everything in your past can be magically changed into freedom and innocence. It is done by disconnecting your beliefs in yourself from your memories about the past. And this is done by abandoning your delusion that you own a separate personality.”

     “You’re touchy. Why? Because you’re false, that’s why. Because you’re bad, that’s why. If you were real, if you were good, anyone could say anything and it would just pass through you because you’re not there any more.”

     “There are a thousand ways the devil can make Tom or Helen shake with doubt. There is no way the devil can make the true wisdom in Tom or Helen shake with doubt.”

     “Get rid of all those foreign invaders who inhabit your inner castle and you will be as nice all the time as you are some of the time.”

     “No one is asked to give up enjoyment; he is asked to abandon his false concept of enjoyment, so that true refreshment may enter every moment.”

     “People wonder how higher truths can possibly be of practical help in home or office, never once sensing that higher truths alone can help.”

     “Everything necessary to true happiness can be obtained, so it is essential to learn to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary.”

“There is no self in awareness. There is no me in consciousness. There is no ‘I’ in realization.”

“One thing that is always right is your eagerness for something higher than yourself.”

“If there is no Me, there is no problem, because I am the
only one in the world that has created my problem.”

“Use every human relationship to wake up more.”

“There is nothing to do but to Be.”

“The reason you cannot think about eternity is because the intellect
which is doing the thinking is an instrument of time and nothing else.”

“What we want is the release of our own confined wisdom,
just as seeds released to the wind finally take root.”

“When living correctly with yourself, you will know
exactly how to live in right relationship with others.”

“There is no beauty like the beauty of the person
who truly wants to know what life is all about.”

“The world is lost because the individual is lost.”

“Few people ever really realize the following fact: Insecurity is a
mental condition, not a condition of finances, friendships or sex.”

“Be patient. If you simply let things come in their own natural way,
you can handle them with natural intelligence.”

“Don’t invent nervous conversations just to have something to say,
and listen to the silence that follows. It will teach you valuable lessons.”

“For the sake of rightness I must learn to disappoint others and myself.”

“If you really don’t understand human nature, you also don’t really understand politics, economics, religion, marriage, war or any other human activity.”

“If you really understand human nature, you also understand
how and why everything happens on earth.”

“The thoughts that others have toward you have
no real power to make you either happy or sad.”

“The entire secret of real happiness is contained in the
following truth: I am not my memories about myself.”

“The test for receptivity is very simple: How many facts
about myself will I hear that I don’t want to hear?”

“Non-tolerance of badness in another is real compassion.”

“We deliberately close our eyes to what we don’t want to see
and then complain when we stumble against a brick wall.”

“False spiritual work keeps you comfortable.
Real spiritual work makes you uneasy.”

“Awareness of resistance erases it.”

“Growing up into the fullness of inner strength is as
exciting as seeking gold and as rewarding as finding it.”

“If you were really as strong as you imagine you are,
you would have no thoughts at all about your strength.”

    "What would your day be like if you voluntarily and casually dropped
every single problem and negativity that you now have regarding anything?”

“The evidence of God’s love is that it won’t let you get away with anything.
Truth is the toughest thing on earth.”

“You should be spending your whole day working on yourself to wake up,
starting with feeling your foot on the floor.”

“Happiness cannot have a cause except spiritual health, which includes mental health.
Any other cause you discover is simply a new way to be unhappy.”

“If you look forward to being happy, you will never be happy.”

“You can’t live on lollipops. It doesn’t matter what color.”

“If you could see the emptiness of your life, then
you would have a chance for something else.”

     “We have affection for whatever is natural, simple, innocent, untouched by man, like a rainbow or waterfall. The spiritually natural has the same appeal. So let others scramble for the unnatural rewards of wealth and praise. Just think of the grand prize of winning permanent victory over life."

     “Everyone is making the great search, whether he is consciously aware of it or not. Everything he does, says, thinks and feels relates to his quest to gain peace, and avoid strife.”

     “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 awhile? Do this and eventually you will do great things.”

     “Every man is a king through conscious awareness of his true identity. He need not try to be anything, he need only realize who he really is — a king by birthright.”

     “Most of you have a flippant attitude towards the devil, which means he has won. He exists and torments you because you allow him to.”

     “You don’t have to be tense as to what’s going to happen to you. You know that anything that happens to you is going to be good. You have lost all pleasure in prophesying doom. Stop where you are and want something different than you now are.”

    “You make up your mind that you are going to do something drastically right with your day. You are going to see your compulsiveness, talking, etc., and scream with great emotion NO!”

     “This sentence is worth a week of pondering: I am angry with myself because I believe in myself the wrong way.”

     “Hell consists of being a wrong person who angrily and hatefully tries to prove that he is a right person. This will become clearer as you imagine a man frantically trying to prove to others that nighttime is daytime.”

     “Stay home spiritually and investigate. You’re afraid to do it because you sense you’ll find something superior. An investigation of something else would turn up. Deliberately defy that feeling and let it go — that feeling that is afraid you’ll find something nobler if you stay home and investigate. ‘What will become of me?’, is from the devil. Fear is always wrong.”

“An outlaw to truth is an in-law to pain.”

“Weakness hurts; strength does not.”

“The next time you feel pushed around by life,
ask who is the pusher and who is the pushed?”

“Resistance to disturbance is disturbance, so why resist?”

“The burning feeling of hatred is the hater’s idea of happiness.”

     “There is destructive excitement and there is constructive excitement. You know what destructive excitement is, such as the thrill of receiving unexpected money  or having power over other people. Constructive excitement is a miraculous life-elevating experience. It consists of anything that happens to you while you are in a state of surrender to the lesson in it. The feeling that accompanies the learned lesson is constructive excitement.”

     “Your curse of the storm is the only storm there is. Your disappointment is the storm. You caused the storm itself; now you can complain about the conditions you caused. When you complain about anything, that anything that you are complaining about is you yourself. You think it is out there, the way that person treated you: ‘Look what they have done to me!’ That is the storm. It comes from the false way you think, from your undeveloped emotions, from your childish reactions. If you haven’t gotten to the point in your inner journey yet where you know that you curse the whole world, you are going to have to go through disappointment. When you are willing to die and fall down on the ground psychologically, truth will be able to come and talk with you because now you will listen where you would never listen before.”

     “When you know how to do it, you can cry your way all the way to dry eyes. Here is how to do it. See that tears are an admission of a total breakdown of your fraudulent solutions to your crisis. Realize just that much. Realize that you don’t know and never have. Remain with the emptiness experienced in the tears themselves. Stick with that. Now watch what happens next.”

     “A thought comes into my mind that you have offended me, that you’re not treating me right. After all, you yelled at me. This thought tells me that I have a problem. No! The only problem is my idea that I have a problem with you screaming at me. This idea came into my mind and said, ‘You yelled at me. I have a problem. I’d better react to it — I’d better do something about my problem.’ I grabbed the idea and believed in its charlatan message. Now if I yell back, then I have a problem. If I don’t yell back, I don’t have a problem. And I don’t have to yell back because I never had a problem to begin with. I just thought I did.”