“A choice made by a divided mind is surrounded and attacked by a dozen other nervous choices. But a choice made by a whole mind stands in powerful independence, for there is no alternative to a conscious choice.”

     “People wonder how higher truths can possibly be of practical help in home or office, never once sensing that higher truths alone can help.”

     “Don’t ask the terrifying question and you won’t need a comforting answer.”

     “A man inherited a country home which was surrounded by tall and wild bushes and weeds. Wanting to see what kind of scenery was beyond, he removed the bushes and weeds. He discovered that he loved the beautiful scenery. Inwardly, our bushes and weeds consist of wild ideas and words.”

     “Few people ever really realize the following fact: Insecurity is a mental condition, not a condition of finances, friendships or sex. The few who do realize this can start the interesting journey that ends beyond ordinary mental conditions, where true security resides.”

     “A real teacher is never concerned whether or not a student learns a lesson. His only task is to present truth, and as clearly and forcefully as possible. He knows too much to be concerned with whether the seed falls on rocky or receptive ground.”

     “Knowledge of divine nature is possible only by entering and passing through the dark tunnel of human nature. Any other way leads to self-trickery and self- isolation.”

     “Man’s life on earth is what it is because he spends almost every moment of his life trying to cover up his anxieties instead of understanding and dissolving them.”

     “What may now appear to be an impassable obstruction will eventually be as nothing, for an eagle which can fly over a boulder can also fly over a mountain.”

     “You have your friends and your finances; you have your activities and your tomorrows. How pathetic that you have everything but your own life.”

“Ask God every morning, ‘Help me to keep
the integrity of my own mind all day.’”

“Little prayers are so powerful. Here is one:
God help me to go beyond myself.”

“Since I must have no god but God, I will stop worshipping my pain.”

“God increase that right feeling tenfold tomorrow.”

“Cowards crave crazy crowds.”

“Pretense tells a lie when it tells you,
 ‘The battle is won by fighting for your positions.’”

“It is better to be healthy than to be sick.”

“You must see where you are consenting to your own torment.”

“Reality tells the truth when it tells you, ‘The battle is won
by seeing you need not have any positions to fight for.’”

“You give people a helping hand only because
you have nothing better to give them.”

“I am not required to sacrifice my life to your weakness.”

“You do not have to know God. You only have to invite God.”

“Interesting, the words ignorance and insolence
both start with the letter ‘I’.”

“No one pushes you into mud holes. You push yourself.”

“You have little initiative to get out of the pool of mud
because you don’t know you’re in it.”

“We suffer only from unlearned lessons.”

“Revealed rightness releases relief.”

“The only psychological peril is to not understand the peril.”

“You can’t solve problems one at a time.
You solve all problems or keep all.”

“When are you going to initiate spiritual action yourself,
instead of having someone else initiate it for you?”

“Life must be built on spiritual plans.”

“Instant observation of your weakness
when it expresses itself is absolutely essential.”

“Welcome higher facts without understanding
them and in time you will understand.”

“Oh how easy your life will be when you are sane.”

“If you make an effort to act rightly, you will act wrongly.”

“I have no business or real importance in my life, so that leaves me
with only one alternative — I’ll have to pry into your business.”

“You will see spiritual truths much clearer
by using your eyes instead of your mouth.”

“If life won’t let you succeed, who said you had to?”

“You invent the fear, the obstacle, the threat, because
you would rather vibrate with fear than find eternal life.”

“Inner and intense punishment is a harmful vibration that
cunningly masquerades as a right and necessary movement.”

“Those sick friends who back you up in this life —
do you really think they will always do so?”

The term justice has no meaning unless connected with spiritual principles, such as love for truth and a wish to understand.”

“It is a bright day when we see that cosmic facts
are as practical as a recipe for baking bread.”

“The aim of wrong people is to try to make you
feel wrong and I forbid you to fall for it.”

“Cosmic wisdom reveals why unhappy events
happen, after which they cease to happen.”

“Remove ignorance, truth dawns.”

“The love of being afraid is one of the greatest enemies of mankind.”

“A self-tormenting question is a wrong question. Drop it right now.”

“Be pleasantly touched by the following statement:
there is no natural need for you to be bad.”

“Life-victory arrives by desiring spiritual answers
more than you desire exterior results.”

“It is bad to be mad.”

     “If truth is leading you, it will also make decisions for you. And since these decisions are right, they will also make you feel right. So what does it mean if you are still using your usual mind to make your own strained decisions? It means you are not yet taking your decisions from the available cosmic compass. Remember that truth will never lead you into a circumstance without also showing you exactly what to do while within it. It is truth’s very nature to reveal clearly to you your needful actions. It is impossible for truth to abandon you. If you feel abandoned, you should see that you have carelessly led yourself into the circumstance. This insight allows the cosmic compass to correct your life-direction.”

     “The condemnation you feel for being evil comes only from evil itself, never from God. The condemnation is nothing more than the unnatural storm arising from your present confused nature. This means that the curse on you comes from you. That can be corrected because you need not remain what you are. A contrite heart has earned you the privilege of being scolded by truth. This steadily removes the curse. A truly humble spirit, which is a truly strong spirit, knows no curse. To summarize, a curse or a condemnation is nothing more than demonic whisperings which gleefully hope that you will listen, tremble and become one of them by believing in their lies. Simply reply, ‘Sorry, but I will no longer fall for it. I don’t have to. Truth said so. Truth alone is now my source of instruction. So all is well. I rest.’ All is well, now and forever.”

     “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 very foolish in being lured after their frantic shrieks. They shout that they are right, but they are always wrong for you personally. Do not follow the deceitful lures of distress and disappointment.”

     There is destructive excitement and there is constructive excitement. You know what destructive excitement is, such as the thrill of receiving unexpected money or having power over other people. Constructive excitement is a miraculous life-elevating experience. It consists of anything that happens to you while you are in a state of surrender to the lesson in it. The feeling that accompanies the learned lesson is constructive excitement.

     “There is nothing in the whole universe that represents a threat to who you really are.”

     “To encourage his students to empty themselves of false values, a teacher asked, ‘If a treasure chest is filled with stones, can you add jewels?’”

     “Ignorance is inferior to intelligence. Intelligence is superior to ignorance.”

     “The entire secret of real happiness is contained in the following truth: I am not my memories about myself.”

     “Whoever is eager enough to find the secret kingdom will never fail in his quest.”

     “Reach out! Within your grasp is that which you have been secretly yearning for all your life.”

     “Get rid of any unconscious fear that the answers to life may not exist — for they do exist.”

Stop Being ‘Nice’
     “I want you to see, as a daily exercise, what a petty annoyance you are to other people. You can’t see the big ones yet, go for the little ones. You interrupt people when they’re talking. You’re so compulsive, so eager to release your built-up tension over the years by being apart from Reality, that you interrupt them while they’re talking and that’s called being rude. You don’t know that you do this. You’re to make a long list of how you are a petty annoyance to other people. One little step at a time, you can’t take very much. How about having a sour face and manner? How about when you’re talking about yourself? You haven’t even started to witness the unfolding of your life because you carry a sign that says, “I am a nice person.” That means you’re spiritually asleep. You absolutely must drop all your phony idealistic self-images of you being nice or others being nice.”

Where’s the Problem?
     A thought comes into my mind that you have offended me, that you’re not treating me right. After all, you yelled at me. This thought tells me that I have a problem. No! The only problem is my idea that I have a problem with you screaming at me. This idea came into my mind and said, “You yelled at me. I have a problem. I’d better react to it — I’d better do something about my problem.” I grabbed the idea and believed in its charlatan message. Now if I yell back, then I have a problem. If I don’t yell back, I don’t have a problem. And I don’t have to yell back because I never had a problem to begin with. I just thought I did.