We are imagining that we are bound and are making various strenuous attempts to become free, while we are all the time free.
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Underlying the diversified and localized gross layers of ordinary consciousness there is a unified, nonlocalized, and subtle layer: pure consciousness.
Everything depends on my thinking. If I think in the right way I will be light. If I think in a wasteful way I'll be heavy. Waste thoughts are dangerous. They waste my time. They allow the past to come alive, then I forget the present and question the future.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgments simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Have you ever noticed that resistance leads to persistence. And behind all resistance is self-created fear. The only way to relax and stay relaxed is acceptance. You don't have to agree, or follow, or condone, but acceptance means you begin any interaction with a serenity which invites others to engage with you. And out of engagement comes the satisfaction of creative expression and an enriching relationship. That's relaxation in action!
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.
There is no nourishment like happiness - it's an elixir.
There is no sickness like sorrow - it's a poison.
The experience of true happiness cures the sickness of sorrow.
A cheerful face goes a long way towards making everything better!
It is wise to bend rather than break.
The habit of telling myself off subtly shapes a nature of sorrow. Instead, let me talk to myself gently, with patience, as one would do to a child.
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.
When the thoughts we think are the same as the words we speak, others will feel our integrity.
