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If two angels were sent down from heaven — one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street — they would feel no inclination to change employments.
Do they cast us out of the city? They cannot cast us out of that which is in the heavens. If they who hate us could do this, they would be doing something real against us. So long, however, as they cannot do this, they are but pelting us with drops of water or striking us with the wind.
Truth does not hurt. Rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.
The entire secret of real happiness is contained in the following truth: I am not my memories about myself.
When admitting, “I just don’t know the answer,” you are doing something far more profound than you think. You place yourself at the foot of the stairs that leads upward to a world far higher than the intellect. When saying, “I just don’t know the answer,” you are coming to an end of the self-conceit and self-deceit that occupies the level of the intellect. You have qualified yourself for leaving the self-centered world and approaching the lofty universal world.
The tormenting feeling of hopelessness exists only in a person who still thinks he must be who he thinks he must be. The agony of hopelessness falls away from anyone who really sees he need not be anyone at all in the eyes of himself or the world. Then, hopelessness is replaced by living with complete power and peace — a new kind of power, a new kind of peace.
You hurt people outside of you because you hurt inside of you.
Step out of your cave; the world waits for you as a garden.
To learn to look away from oneself is necessary in order to see many things.
The majority of men are, as it were, suspended in the air, like toy balloons; every breath of wind moves them.
Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne.
Character is constructed in the midsts of the tempests of the world.
For this is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love.
Dare to believe only in yourselves.
Philosophy is, to tell the truth, a homesickness, an effort to return to home.
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and command of his own inner self; to render his consciousness its own light.
There’s no place more empowering for you to be than in the present moment.
The only sure way to drop a problem is to never pick it up in the first place.
[This philosophy we speak of is] Cheerful and yet profound, like an October afternoon.
