Vocal cords are not rental units. No Hebrew prophet, nor Mohammed, nor any founder of any cult or religion ever spoke the words of anybody but themselves.

Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.

You are the only real authority in your life, but you yield that status to so many externals by believing in them, by having been punished or forced into accepting them.

Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it.

When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, can you change them and thus it.

There is no other force, no other determining factor, no external cause to the cohesive unfolding of your life’s episodes – only your composite inner nature. Change that and you change your life.

The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self.

It must be obvious that the Reality we all encounter only works one way, and it functions that way regardless of what the experiencer believes.

Whatever beliefs and definitions you hold will seem to be true.

Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it.

Reality, in its essence, consists not of particles interacting pointlessly in anindependent physical plane, but rather of values, psychological elements ofmind, made real.

I couldn't have imagined how much more there was to lose.

A DESPERATE MAN, HE'S A READY-MADE VICTIM

I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.

You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

The Universe is one indivisible, dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled it is impossible to consider them as independent elements.

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny.

Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.