If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any time.
Ideas are impressed on the subconscious through the medium of feeling. No idea can be impressed on the subconscious mind until it is felt, but once felt—be it good, bad or indifferent—it must be expre...
I can see very clearly that it is and was and will be all perfect. As Rumi said, Sell your cleverness, and purchase bewilderment. I am bewildered and awestruck by the perfection of my spending four of...
I am and never become a teacher doing my job in a listless charade of indifference.
How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little? A heart starts beating inside a mother’s womb a few weeks after conception, and it’s a total mystery to everyone on our planet. In com...
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind—that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept a...
Having been exposed to a variety of religious experiences in the foster homes I lived in, being Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or anything else means absolutely nothing to me. I have already formed an...
Have you lived 75 years, or have you lived one year 75 times?
Don’t try to delude yourself into believing that you enjoy something that you find distasteful. You can dislike something and still not have to be angry about it.
Do what you know you have to do to feel whole, to feel complete, and to feel as if you’re fulfilling your destiny. You’ll never be at peace if you don’t get that music out and let it play. Don’t die w...
Do the Tao Now Copy the following words and apply them to yourself: I came from greatness. I must be like what I came from. I will never abandon my belief in my greatness and the greatness of others....
Decide that any and all unhappiness that you choose will never be the result of someone else, but rather that it will be the result of you and your own behavior. Remind yourself constantly that any ex...
Buckminster Fuller expressed in these words: Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be he...
Blaise Pascal, who said, All man’s troubles derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
As you read the next two sections, please keep an open mind, even if what you read conflicts with what you’ve believed all your life!
An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart’s desires.
Amar a si mesmo significa aceitar-se como alguém que tem valor porque decidiu ter valor.
Always keep the thought of God’s abundance in mind. If any other thought comes, replace it with that of God’s abundance. Remind yourself every day that the universe can’t be miserly; it can’t be wanti...
All the great heroes of your life have taught you nothing. And they are no better than you, in any way. Politicians, actors, athletes, rock-stars, your boss, therapist, teacher, spouse, or whoever, ar...
All rights and wrongs of every description represent shoulds of one kind or another. And the shoulds get in your way, particularly when they conflict with another person’s need to have his own as well...