To be told you are a victim, and believe you are a victim, can deny your victory.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

The universe is wider than our views of it.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Unless you believe you will not understand.

Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.

Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it’s gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that’s more terrible than dying—more terrible than dying young.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.