Great Throughts Treasury

"Too many of us seem to be searching for something 'out there' to make our lives complete. What we are all really searching for is the divine essence that lives within."

"Unless you use the muscles that lifts you to your higher self, it will weaken- just as your body weakens when it is not used."

"We can?t control our world but we can control our reactions to it."

"We don't have to wait until we are old to gather the riches..."

"We move into true adult status, where we have much to give this world."

"We need to go through many life experience before the power within is brought forward in all it?s glory."

"Whatever the method, the purpose of quieting the mind is always the same... to step out of you own way and touch a Universal Oneness with all things."

"When we don?t acknowledge our pain, it will be transferred into a bodily symptom, anger or something equally destructive."

"When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us, than we could ever have imagined."

"When you can take responsibility for your decisions, you become a lot less angry at the world, and, most important, a lot less angry at yourself!"

"While none of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly."

"With a positive attitude, value can be created from anything that happens in life."

"Your inner peace has nothing to do with your dramas of your life."

"Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depend solely on what you pay attention to."