The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
Time itself comes in drops.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
