Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

You either get life or you don't, and if you don't - life gets you.

Men hand out cigars. Women 'hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.

What are you going to do if it's the end of the world? You better go out having fun instead of stressing about it.

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

Make up your mind that you will become the seeker of your own higher self.

Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.