To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

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

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

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

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.