"The whole process of growth is letting go of thoughts. When our thoughts are totally eliminated, there is nothing left but the Self."

"Studying the illusion helps make it real.  

If you want to know the Truth, don't study the opposite."

"BE HAPPY  It is useless to think about what will make you happy.

If you think you know a source of sunshine you will try to find it

in other people, in ownership, in effort and time. But these areas

have never made anyone happy. You are happy when you don't think

about happiness, for true peace cannot come from a strained mind.

Anxious desire builds an illusory castle which collapses with the

first frustration. Above all ideas about happiness is Happiness.

Prove this for yourself."

                      SOLVED The Mystery of Life, p. 190

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.” 

"Develop a constant attitude of gratitude."

"Someone asked, 'Why is a free man free?' Reply: 'Because he knows

something you do not know. He knows he does not exist in the false

sense that unfree people think they exist. Therefore, he has neither

the pains nor confusions that go with a false existence. He has the

freedom of a former actor who has removed his costume and is there-

fore no longer a slave to the audience.'"

                    700 Inspiring Guides To A New Life, # 317

"It is the belief that the world is real that is the cause of one's difficulty in keeping out habitual thoughts. Were it not for this belief, realization of your Self would be easy. And this is your prime difficulty, the belief that the body, mind and world are real."

"Let us discover if all thoughts can be traced to one thought as their base of operations. Do you not see that the thought or idea of "I" -- the idea of personality -- is that root thought? The "I"thought is not pure: it is contaminated by association with the body and senses. See to whom the trouble is, then the other thoughts will cease."

"The feeling there's something missing or something wrong must nag at you loudly or quietly. Why? Because that's the whole point of ego, to convince yourself you are the exact opposite of what you really are."

"...allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it."

"I have to find out what the relationship is of thought in action; and to find out if thought need interfere when there is no need of thought at all. I see a beautiful tree, without a single leaf, against the sky; it is extraordinarily beautiful and that is enough---finished. Why should thought come in and say, 'I must have that delight again tomorrow?'"

"As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of Maya is now changed into something good and beautiful."

"In meditating,

meditate on your own divinity,

The goal of life is to be a vehicle 

for something higher.

Keep your eye up there

between the pairs of opposites

watching your play in the world.

Let the world be as it is, 

and learn to rock with the waves.

Remain 'radiant,' 

as Joyce put it,

in the filth of the world."

"Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies."

'Meet your own Self. Be with your own Self. Listen to it. Obey it. Cherish it. Keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide."

"The intellect always seeks to have external knowledge, rejecting knowledge of its own origin. The mind is only the identification of the Self with the body. It is a false ego that is created; it creates false phenomena in its turn and appears to move in them. If the false identity vanishes the Reality becomes apparent. This does not mean that Reality is not there now. It is always there and eternally the same."