“If you do not change, you can become extinct !”
“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”
“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
“One who does not reform his own soul cannot reform others.”
“When Ego Goes Up...Destruction Becomes Inevitable!”
“Thoughts you feed become thoughts you heed.”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”
“Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.”
“You just can t let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.”
“How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.”
“Do your best, and be a little better than you are.”
“All we are not stares back at what we are.”
“If a tree’s strength is judged while it is still a seed, it is mistaken as weak.”
“What is considered impossible is someone else’s opinion. What is possible is my decision.”
“WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.”
“A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these events don t have to be the cause of ongoing suffering. Yes, these events cause grief and sadness, but grief and sadness pass, like everything else, and are replaced with other experiences. The ego, however, clings to negative thoughts and feelings and, as a result, magnifies, intensifies, and sustains those emotions while the ego overlooks the subtle feelings of joy, gratitude, excitement, adventure, love, and peace that come from Essence. If we dwelt on these positive states as much as we generally dwell on our negative thoughts and painful emotions, our lives would be transformed.”