The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
No one succeeds without effort. . . Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
You fiddle lucker!' she cried.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.