Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.
Learn to see a problem from a higher level of understanding. Then, it dissolves before your eyes.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
