The more we are willing to learn about the way fear works, the less power it has to work its ways on us.

The next time some hostile state takes you over, see that something foreign to your True Nature has imposed itself on you and taken over your life.

It was we, who in ignorance of reality, carelessly attribute weight to events that are without substance.

When we feel some kind of darkness coming over us, we must muster the courage to consciously doubt the reality of this condition, even though our feelings are powerfully trying to convince us that what we feel is true.

The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't try to think your way around it.

Learn to detect negative feelings that imply there's nothing that can be done about the way you feel at the moment.

The cause of confusion and unhappiness lies in all the self-centered, touchy parts of us that insist, one after the other, that the world conform to their demands.

Before we can choose not to compromise ourselves, we must first become acutely aware of those thoughts of ours that may be holding some secret seed of self-defeat.

No human being is a victim of any punishment outside of their own undeveloped life-level from which their inner reactions are seen as outer attacks.

Before we release ourselves into the hands of any automatically appearing rescuing agent, we must first take it into the light in order to see who sent it.

Here's a short exercise to help you see the following fact: There's a way to know, without ever having to think about it, exactly which of your own thoughts and feelings are your friends, and which are foes.

The punishing pressure we feel in this life is not because of what life is but because of what we perceive life isn't.