“You have a flip flop life simply because you have a flip flop mind.”

“When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer,
the answer dawns.”

“Exhaust yourself. Every time you exhaust yourself,
you renew your strength.”

“Don’t give neurotic people a reward. When you permit
them to upset you, you are giving them a reward.”

“Self-acquaintance supplies self-command.”

“The truth inspires because it connects what is
real in you with what is real in the universe.”

“Your life belongs to you, not to the demands of others,
and when you see this fully, their demands are powerless.”

“The victorious way is to take commands from your own interior
nature, not from exterior events or from other people.”

“Who you really are is absolutely victorious,
triumphant over any difficulty you can name.”

“Care only for pleasing what is honorable,
for that is the same as pleasing yourself.”

“To work hard on yourself is good and decent and necessary.”

“From now on you will welcome your troubles with great glee.”

“Evil can be described as ignorance of the need to develop inwardly.”

“Human evil is latent. Make every effort to become sane.”

“Aim to understand the dragon, not defeat him,
but to understand the dragon is his defeat.”

“Stop depending on an undependable world.”

“Every virtue, every freedom exists because God exists.”

“There is no hope for tomorrow. There is only reality right now.”

“Remind yourself over and over that the prison of unhappiness
has no bars except incorrect thoughts.”

“Now is new because it doesn’t include you.”

“Don’t try to solve the problem, rather see through myself.”

“You must come to a stop and remain at a stop.”

“You will be aware when your wish to be aware
is stronger than your wish to be unaware.”

“Self-honesty heals self-deceit.”

“Any teaching which avoids self-facing is untrue.”

“The great goal of life is to get up knowing
that you’re going to wake up.”

“A right aim is to refuse absolutely
to ever attack anyone or anything again.”

“You can no longer believe in your own self-written propaganda
about yourself? Congratulations. You are on the way.”

“When you want to follow what is right but cannot do so,
  remember that your authentic nature can easily do so.”

“Cosmic Command is acquired by taking new and small
responsibilities each day for inner development.”

“Do you think the King of the Universe
would visit your mind the way it is now?”

“Watch the river of your mind. Know when you think useless thoughts.”

“Cosmic confidence grows with the simple realization that truth exists —
which few people really realize.”

“If you have no false notions to defend, who can offend you?”

“Remind yourself over and over that the prison of
unhappiness has no bars except incorrect thoughts.”

“I don’t learn by doing what I always do.
I learn by doing what I can’t do.”

“Cherish self-liberation above all else.”

“Right and constant inner work is all that matters.
Inner work is the whole and only answer to everything.”

“God cannot care for the parts of you that cannot care for God.”

“You condemn yourself because you first approve yourself.”

“Sorry means you can’t and won’t do it again.”

“We must leave the lower to have the higher.”

“We learn to love the light by seeing
clearly what the darkness does to us.”

“The truly positive makes a negative mind scowl.
The falsely positive makes a negative mind smile.”

“Badness is an admission of failure. Think about this all day.”

“Gloom is passive instability; insolence is active instability.”

“Conscious evaluation is NOT the same as criticism.”

“True strength is complete awareness.”

“Cowards crave crazy crowds.”

“The world says, ‘How little can I give — how much can I gain?”

“Underneath it all, the real battle is between God and Satan.”

“The world is on the Titanic.”

Why You —
     You have dozens, hundreds of ideas about the kind of a person you are. These ideas have no relation to reality at all! This is why you have problems. This is why you have anxieties. This is why you have fears. This is why you feel left out when someone else has more than you have. This is why you say unconsciously to yourself, “You have no business treating me that way.” All thought connects with memory. All thought connects with time — with yesterday. To be free of everything — not 99%, but 100% — you have to be free of acquired thought!

     “The everyday mind can lead to the door of the higher world but it cannot enter. This is of utmost importance to understand; it saves so much frustration. Notice how often the New Testament states that the human mind cannot comprehend cosmic concepts.”

— The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power

     “If you make a physical break with an unwanted person or condition without also making a mental break you have broken nothing. You are still tied to the other person by a powerful rubber rope that will sooner or later snap you back to the same, or a similar, condition. Only a mental break, a spiritual break, can free you from a punishing situation. This spirituality can be described as a new and superior kind of loyalty. You are loyal to your impression of the existence of something higher than anything on earth, including yourself.”

     “The only standard and the cowardly standard lived by most people is this: ‘What acts of mine will please the maximum number of people and offend the minimum number?’”

     “No one is asked to give up enjoyment; he is asked to abandon his false concept of enjoyment, so that true refreshment may enter every moment.”

     “You can begin to catch the false behavior by asking the question, ‘Who said that?’ and you will catch your false personality being unpleasant, sarcastic and so on. As often as you can, you will interrupt yourself and say, ‘Who said that?’ And if it is negative in any way at all, that is the invented self speaking in your name.”

     On a piece of paper write, “What I do when I am scared.” Then list numerically what you do. Keep it simple. Write down everything you remember. This includes all the centers: physical, mental, emotional and the sex center. For example: 1. I get tense, 2. I get anxious, 3. I get jealous, or 4. I retreat. The longer the list, the better work you are doing and the more you know about the machine. With that knowledge, something higher than the machine will repair it for you.

     “Once seeing that something is truly natural, you can stop right there; you need not go on to decide whether it is good or bad. Naturalness contains nothing of the usual kind of human goodness or badness, being neither a hawk nor a dove, but only flight itself. Now, your mechanical mind will probably ask what is meant by being natural. I expected that common question. The fact that you ask that question means that you would rather ask about naturalness than find it.”

     “It is right instruction to slow down and very beneficial to make small aims to do this. You will see how you forget to follow the simplest of instructions. This observation of failure is success. Make an aim to slow down your reaction for three seconds when someone speaks to you.”

     “Know that distress and disappointment are states of stupidity and nothing else. Do not trust them. They have no intelligence whatever in them; they can only lead you astray. You are foolish in being lured after their frantic shrieks. They shout that they are right, but they are always wrong and wrong for you personally. Do not follow the deceitful lures of distress and disappointment.”