“You have to face your responsibilities to evolve.”

“Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.”
“I am not concerned with the consequences of being true.”

“Truth seems harsh and negative only to dishonest people;
  dishonest people who would rather attack than yield.”

“Heaven is the nonexistence of the thought-self.”

“Life cannot make sense on the level of life.”

“The truly necessary and vital is to realize we
are here on earth to rise above ourselves.”

“No one can fall under the evil influence of another
unless he is already under the evil influence of himself.”

“You should never give up, for truth never gives up on you.”

“The shocking revelation that you are no one at all is healed instantly
by the understanding that you need not be anyone at all.”

“You are forbidden to put pressure on another human being
in order to get what you want from him.”

“Think about the miracle of saving yourself.”

“Make the pain get worse so you can see it.”
Let the pain get as bad as we can bear and then add to it.”

“No one loves me? What has that to do with me?”

“You are here on earth to find yourself, not prove yourself.”

“Place no one, nothing, above the Spirit of Truth.”

“Keep going in spite of all obstacles, not
knowing what is going to become of you.”

“The way to inner success is utterly simple.
Just do what is unpopular but right.”

“The entire human problem resides in a peculiarity of
   human nature — its unwillingness to explore human nature.”

“Inner liberation can be described as a condition in which
you no longer take either credit or blame for anything.”

“Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.”

“A reminder: You are not here on earth to live up to the expectations of others. You are here to develop into a whole and happy human being.”

“Freedom is not the opposite of your usual state, but above it.
  Liberty is vertical, not horizontal.”

“Do you want to please others, or the Truth within?”

“What the world has done to you, Truth can undo.”

“Think from Truth about life, not from life about Truth.”

“The struggle comes to an end when there is no ‘for’ and ‘against’.”

“For the sake of rightness I must learn to disappoint others and myself.”

“Your patience and persistence will develop
into valuable self-knowledge.”

“An evil man slanders the Truth because of the hell he feels for doing it.”

“A lost human being doesn’t care if he wrecks the whole world,
as long as he feels the sick pleasure in the wrecking.”

“Seek only the high places and you will have everything.”

“A false man loses even when he appears to win.
A True Man wins even when he appears to lose.”

"To have quietness you must give up noise."

“The world is destroyed by ‘good’ people.”

“It is your moral duty to be happy.”

“Defeat has no right to exist.”

“All hostility is enmity against God.”

“Give needed thought to your outer future,
but give your whole life to your inner future.”

“A free man is free because at one point in his life he
became willing to hear what he did not want to hear.”

“Just now we have neurotic energy — hatred, etc.
God’s energy is pure, but it is distorted on the intellectual level.”

“Individual receptivity is absolutely everything. Without it,
nothing changes. With it, all things are possible for you.”

“Never, never, never, rescue yourself. If you do
you will have to go through the experience again.”

“False spiritual work keeps you comfortable.
Real spiritual work makes you uneasy.”

“Loneliness is caused by trying to find a
sense of completion where it can’t be found.”

“The secret of spiritual success is to be utterly
discouraged but to continue to work.”

“Be curious, not furious.”

“A sane mind never tries to help settle
differences between two insane minds.”

“If you want to know who you are not,
you are not your biography of yourself.”

“Both the problem and the solution are within ourselves.”

“The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by
a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.”

“My greatest hell is to try to convince myself I’m right when I’m wrong.”

     “If you have no spiritual initiative of your own you will unknowingly try to steal initiative from those who have it, but you will go nowhere and you will feel your emptiness.”

     “You can trust Truth because it is the only thing that is not in trouble with itself. Spirit is heavenly, mind is earthly. There is heaven on earth when the spirit guides the mind.”

     “Your anxiety belongs to you. It does not and cannot belong to me. I need not: feel responsible for it; try to ease your pain from it; feel guilty over it; converse with you about it; give my attention to it; feel sympathetic toward you over it; be anxious toward it; react with confusion toward it; be burdened by it; get involved in any way with it. Your anxiety belongs to you. It does not and cannot belong to me.”

     “You are saved when you invite spiritual perception, which will give you spiritual renewal, the discovery being that truth, God, resides above the way your mind operates in opposites. You rise above the opposites, and truth is there. You rise above them and your new nature is there. Your true nature is above your mind. Eventually you won’t think about spirituality. You will know it, you will have it, and you will live it.”

     “I will explain to you why you’re not happy, why you’re not carefree. It’s because you’re trying to collect things. You’re a collector, and you think that every time you get one of those objects that you desire so fervently it adds something to you, to your security. Well, I would guess that if you take paper and pencil and write down all the things you’ve acquired — friends, romances, exciting occasions, physical objects — it would number in the thousands, wouldn’t it, tens of thousands of things you have possessed for a few seconds or maybe several years. Maybe you’ve had that house for 50 years, for example. How come you’re still worried?”

     “It is right instruction to slow down and very beneficial to make small aims to do this. You will see how you forget to follow the simplest of instructions. This observation of failure is success. Make an aim to slow down your reaction for three seconds when someone speaks to you.”

     “Know that distress and disappointment are states of stupidity and nothing else. Do not trust them. They have no intelligence whatever in them; they can only lead you astray. You are foolish in being lured after their frantic shrieks. They shout that they are right, but they are always wrong and wrong for you personally. Do not follow the deceitful lures of distress and disappointment.”

     “The truth inspires because it connects what is real in you with what is real in the universe.”

     “You always get what you ask for, for you are what you ask for. In the psychological world there is no division between what you are and what you get. A donkey gets the experience of a donkey because it is a donkey. A lion gets the experience of a lion because it is a lion.”

     “Man’s task is to uplift his inner state to the level of his public preaching.”

     “Good and bad are in a power struggle. You take the power and let bad have the struggle.”

     “You always have a separate self that is never scared, never intimidated, never deceived. Your pleasure in life is to make permanent contact with the non-scared section of yourself. Its revelation is your salvation.”

     “The higher always has power to push out the lower but you are the  deciding factor. You must allow the Heavenly Spirit to do for you what it wants to do.”

Drop Thought
     “The Frightening End of Thought: So I am going to catch myself without making another mistake of living in time. Thought is always in time. So I break thought, then there will be a pause in there in which there is no thought at all and in that I am free. And when you do this for the first time, when you really see that you can be without a thought at all, you’ll want to work on yourself every minute because you have sighted the way out at last so that you are not depending on thought to keep your false personality intact. It is only thinking that keeps it in place. Our task is not to just get it out of place but to throw it out altogether so that I can see that something is self defeating and then say all right I saw it. I am not going to linger on it so as to feel myself as a great sinner. I am going to drop thought. I would say that the most frightening thought that ever comes to a human being is the idea of coming to an end of thought. Because when there is no thinking anymore, you, I, cease to exist which, thank heaven is what we were looking for all along. But we are afraid to look at it because what would happen if I let go of my success, my reputation being the nice man. What would happen is that you would be out of the cage. But we don’t know this. We have it exactly backward. What we value is ruining us. And what we reject could save us. It is best to reverse our thinking.”