Quote Archive 1

“Happiness is not the acquisition of anything,
it is the understanding of something.”

“We are frustrated because we demand our answer over the answer.”

“To be like the light we must be in the light.”

“Live freshly every moment by seeing that mere thoughts
about a past experience do not create a present reality.”

“First live in heaven, after which you will live easily on earth, which means
you will not be in conflict when deciding between tea or milk for lunch.”

“One evidence of an empty life is that you are anxious.
You are trying to fill your empty life with _______. Fill in the blank.
(Examples: moneymaking, activities, etc.)”

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

“When fearing anything we attribute to it a power which it does not possess in fact. So fear is a wrong move because it is untrue. Just release what is true in you.”

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‘We suffer only from a lack of self-knowledge.”

“A man understands why his life unfolds as it does
by understanding the operations of his own nature.”

“You need not surrender to anything negative – not to anything.

“We must listen to the voice of reality, not to the voice of our own fears.”

“An unawakened mind sees everything according to its
past experiences, according to personal preference.”

“Valuable self-knowledge comes through daily self-observation.
Observe your thoughts and acts while neither praising nor
condemning them, but simply to understand yourself.”

“The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable –
when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.”

“Right reactions to daily challenges can change the kind of a day you experience.”

“Protection that really works is invisible, not visible; cosmic, not earthly;
individual, not social; peaceful, not noisy; innocent, not guilty.”

“In a true man, spirit is the king and thought is the obedient servant.
In a false man, thought is the king and the spirit is considered an enemy.”

“Cosmic confidence grows with the simple realization that truth exists –
which few people really realize.”

“Lose something before you get it and you will not fear losing it.”

“We can either have our own way, and lose, or lose our own way, and win.”

“You will be aware when your wish to be aware
is stronger than your wish to be unaware.”

“Truth is delighted to give us an abundance of rich gifts,
but our cherished ignorance prevents our reception.”

“Keep always in front of you this simple and good news: With right inner
activity you can replace your wounding confusion with healing insight.”

“If a man is insane, and two hundred million
people claim he is sane, he is still insane.”

“When someone hints that he will turn against you unless you
please him, invite him to turn against you at once and with full force.”

“Higher energy can do something that nothing else can do.
What it can do is to conquer the universe.”

“Invisible evil is the enemy, not that person or event.”

“The only thing I need is freedom from myself.”

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

“Comparison is the essence of sickness.”

“Seek revelation, not comfort.”

“Conscious ego-defeat is victory.”

You can’t win but there is winning for you.”

“Serve your true interest, not your self-interest.”

“Only noise makes mistakes. Silence never makes mistakes.”

“Worried thought prevents practical thought which prevent worried thought.”

“Even a first glimpse of true success begins to crumble the fear of failure in worldly affairs, for as social success loses its appeal, social failure loses its meaning.”

“Be true to your original nature and you make every
circumstance a right circumstance as far as you are concerned.”

“You are learning to meet every experience as if it has
no power to cause distress, for it is in fact powerless.”

“Truth is aware of man’s fears, but never accepts
them as his necessary or permanent condition.”

“Seek something more important than yourself.”

“You still want something from man instead of everything from God.”

“Always stay on the path of seeing what is wrong,
then you will see what is right.”

“True spiritual salvation begins when you see that you are a part of the mad mob,
and that the last thing you want is to be rescued.
You must see how violently you fight your own salvation.”

“Awareness breaks thought. You can’t be thinking when you are aware.”

“Evil has no power except what we falsely give it.”

“Staying home (spiritually) is where a true spiritual hero is. Don’t go into thought.
Don’t get angry, etc. Just stay home. You’ll see there is something higher.”

“Do not resist or complain or fight. Let truth win. If we no
longer value our resistance, something new will break through.”

“Confidence must rest in knowledge, not hope.”

“False goals and feelings of helplessness go together.”

“A man’s day is purposeless when he spends it
in unconscious nourishment of neurosis.”

“Remember, the world is filled with people who do not know who they are,
who spend their lives telling other people who they are.”

“We need the wisdom to have nothing to say.”

“Hearing truth is not the same as understanding it.”

“Everyone posses an internal self-correction
system to which he must connect himself.”

“The mercy we need is self-mercy, which consists
of ceasing to behave badly while justifying it.”

“Self-absence creates self- presence.”

“Anything that does not lead you higher is lifeless.”

“Have no fear to not know where you are going in life.”

“Don’t try to solve the problem, rather see through myself.”

“Avoid nothing. Go through everything.”

“You cannot solve your problem by thinking about yourself.”

“The single most important thing is for you to persist in spite of everything.”

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

“Everyone who is allergic to reality wastes his life trying to prove he is not allergic.”

“Entertainment disguised as spiritual instruction keeps many in the human jungle.”

“Lost people try to impose a sense of guilt upon others, but sane people refuse it.”

“Let ordinary thinking come to an end, and extraordinary thinking will begin.”

“The intelligent reaction toward trouble is to ask,
‘How can I think clearly toward this?’”

“In spite of all appearances we are chained
only by our own lack of clear comprehension.”

“Uplift your inner nature and you will uplift your love-life.”

“Learning means to see the event so clearly that it cannot repeat itself.”

“The individual has had a problem only with his own wrong thinking toward love.”

Quote Archive 2

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