You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

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

Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.

The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.