People are afraid to concentrate because they are afraid of losing themselves if they are too absorbed in another person, in an idea, in an event. The less strong their self, the greater the fear of...

The more the feeling of incapacity and the lack of genuine will increase, the more submission or obsessive desire to please one's whims and insistence on choosing proliferates.

It's much easier to control our perceptions and emotions than it is to give up our desire to control other people and events.

Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll...

The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun.

I'd learned something, all right, about the power of attraction, and Nee was right, it was potent. But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right. Isn't...

Self-actualizing people see the unfolding of God in everyone that they meet. They go beyond appearances. They are friendly with anyone and everyone regardless of class.

All human giving is fiction giving. Only the Absolute nonfictively owns; hence only the Absolute can nonfictively give; hence the mortal who believes that he or she owns, stands no chance of receiving...

Don't have children until you're ready to be a creator and give birth to creators. It is wrong to have children out of need, it is wrong to use a child to soothe your loneliness, it is wrong to create...

Famously, Gloria Steinem once advised women that they should strive to become like the men they had always wanted to marry. What I've only recently realized is that I not only have to become my own...

There comes a time in every young woman's life when she must learn to trust the evidence of her own senses, of her own experiences, if it does not confirm what she has heard from others.

One must love everything.

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one's life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river...

Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing...

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Events and experiences are opportunities drawn to you - created by you individually or collectively, through consciousness. Consciousness creates experience. You are attempting to raise your...

Instead, I would raise my altar with the image of Beatrice; and, by consecrating myself to her, I would consecrate myself to the world of spirit and to the gods. The part of life I took from the...

I have experienced life enough to realize that reality does not align with dreams, but its greatest joy now is to tell this reality that it does not need her and that her happiness is not linked to...

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else...

Only fear can defeat life.

The mind is much more interesting than the body.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Less but better is a principle whose time has come.

You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction. You are strong, but there is a flaw in your strength, and unless you can learn how...

It is. And yet so few really are free. Nearly all people live in prisons of their own making, regardless of their faith, creed, sex or race.

If you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the...

There is no reality except in action.

Depth answers only to depth.

Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.