"Our Real Self is a ceaseless, ever-changing, and vital expression of eternal energies, even though this timeless nature remains veiled from us because of our present level of consciousness."

"The only activities of true value are those which aim at inner transformation."

"Ask spiritual questions with intense integrity, and inspiring answers will surely arrive."

"The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive."

"A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. He does not really seek happiness, rather he seeks for a condition which matches his personal idea regarding the nature of happiness. But happiness is not a mere idea, for one idea will always have competition from another idea. The is why the unhappy man chases for ever from one attraction to another. Happiness will come when he stops chasing, that is, when he stops thinking that an idea about happiness is the same as happiness. A man enjoying the sunshine does so without analysing it."

"It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?"

"Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge."

"Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil."

"You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image?"

"The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster."

"The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money."

"When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves."

"If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?"

"Mental sickness has set up a system by which it never loses. No matter what you do and no matter what the results are, you will win an ego-victory. That means that when you send your desires out into the world: 1. You will get what you want, or 2. You won't get what you want. Of you get what you want, the pseudo-nature says, "I have at last been given what I so richly deserve," and the sickness feels affirmed. If you don't get what you want, you feel sorry for yourself. You still feel affirmed because you get a feeling, and that's all that neurosis wants is a feeling."

"Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas."

"Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought."

"Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you."

"Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain."

"Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it."

"Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood."

"To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society."

"We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help."

"We are the subject of all that we have yet to realize, and the object of all that we have realized."

"You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life."

"Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level."

"What we find in life is based on where we put our attention. When we focus on the small worlds our thoughts create, we miss out on the beauty and possibilities we are meant to enjoy."

"An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self defeat."

"Consciously giving up the last word is a secret prayer because the you that wants the last word isn't really you at all...it's that dark spirit of one-upmanship, that dark spirit of combativeness."

"Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century."

"Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell."

"Modern Philosophers, that wisely keep to sandy shallows, like shrimps, for fear of bigger fish."

"The proper study of mankind is woman."

"Holy indignation is a proof that we should do the same thing ourselves, and easy tears are a certain sign of a hard heart."

"Nothing remains with man unless it is insinuated with some delight."

"He is irrational, however well he may be able to reason, who does not clearly see that good is good and truth truth."

"The enthusiasm for goodness which shows that it is not the habit of the mind."

"Enough's a surfeit to the soul."

"Toleration, as it is now widely preached, may be a very one-sided bargain. It will not do to let falsehood and moral idiocy say to truth and honesty, "I will tolerate you if you will tolerate me.""

"The Catholic Church itself has been nearly killed by the infection of the puritanism of the Reformation."

"Ninety-nine men in a hundred are natural men, that is, beasts of prey; and it is mere insanity, in business matters, to deal with a stranger upon any other assumption than that he is a natural man, though we should veil our knowledge of the actual fact by a courteous recognition in words and manners of his better possibilities."

"Good people and religious are the first to say, "He hath a devil" of any one whose way is widely different from and maybe greatly higher than their own."

"Religion is not religion until it has become, not only natural, but so natural that nothing else seems natural in its presence."

"The difference between a commonly well-behaved woman and a high-bred lady consists in very small things—but what a difference it is!"

"Nothingness is capacity, and night the opportunity of light."

"God is the only reality, and we are real only so far as we are in His order, and He is in us."

"The history of creation, regarded by some in very early ages as probably "mythical," has, indeed, been proved to be certainly so, but the myth includes teaching of much more significance to us than the supposed history, and everyone should be glad to discover this additional proof that the aim of the writers of Scripture was not to satisfy an idle curiosity about facts which do not concern us. The doctrine of evolution promises to be of very easy assimilation by the Church."

"Creation is nothing but a concerted piece, consisting of representative repetitions and variations of and harmonious commentaries upon the simple theme, God, […] divine contrapuntal music […]. If Beethoven and Bach are but senseless noise to the untrained ears of the boy who likes to hear Balfe on the street organ; you, though you may be capable of Beethoven and Bach, should hesitate to affirm that the sphere-music is not music because to your ears it is nothing but confusion. The first step towards becoming able to hear it is, to fix your attention upon the theme, which is God."