Please observe the adaptability of water. If you squeeze it fast, the water will flow out quickly. If you squeeze it slowly, it will come out slowly.

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Man is constantly growing, and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas, or “way” of doing things, that’s when he stops growing.

I’m not a smoker because I don’t think putting smoke into your body is quite the thing to do. As for alcohol, I think it tastes awful. Don’t know why anyone should want to drink the stuff.

I don’t drink nor smoke and those events are many times senseless.

Shut down all forms of distraction. Eliminate all opportunities for rivalry.

Thoughts are things, in the sense that thought can be translated into its physical equivalent.

Sharpen the psychic power of seeing in order to act immediately in accordance with what it sees.

Drop and dissolve inner blockage. A conditioned mind is never a free mind. Wipe away and dissolve all its experience and be “born afresh”.

This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream (remember that practical dreamers never quit). I may now own nothing but a little place down in a basement, but once my imagination has got up a full head of stream, I can see painted on a canvas on my mind a picture of a fine, big fix or six story Gung Fun Institute with branches all over the States…

I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over set backs, achieving “impossible” objectives.

I will play with my children and joke with my children, but business is business. When the subject is a serious one, you don’t go around trying to keep from hurting their feelings. You say what must be said and set the rules which must be set without worrying about whether they like it or not.

The way to bring back the dream is to relive the dream as if it were happening now.

Be proficient in your field as well as in harmony among fellow men.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

What I detest most are dishonest people who talk more than they are capable of doing.

Joy and suffering are the fruit of right and wrong thinking. Suffering, especially, is mostly self-manufactured; we are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.

The Dominicans have the simplicity of a real human being; there is not so hypocrisy like in the big cities.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Negativeness very often unknowingly creeps up upon us. It helps occasionally to stop all thoughts (the chattering of worries, anticipations, and so forth, in your head) and then once more refreshingly march bravely on.

Most people can talk without listening. Very few can listen without talking. It is very rare that people can talk and listen.

Realizing that my emotions are both positive and negative, I will form daily habits which will encourage the development of the positive emotions and aid me in converting the negative emotions into some form of useful action.

The important thing is that I am personally satisfied with my work. If it is a piece of junk, I will only regret it.

There is fear and insecurity in pride, for when one aims at being highly esteemed, and having achieved such status, he is automatically involved in the fear of losing one’s status.

Then protection of his status appears to be his most important need, and this creates anxiety.

If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

The more and more you are aware, the more and more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh, uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

There is nothing that will enable you to pursue your course in greater peace than the patient bearing of insult. Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.

“A man is literally what he thinks”. This might be a shocking statement, but everything is a state of mind.

The subconscious mind favors thoughts inspired by emotional feelings. It also gives preference to dominating thoughts.

The past is no more, the future is not yet. “Now” includes the balance of being here, experiencing, involvement, phenomenon, awareness.

To understand and live now, there must be dying to everything of yesterday. Die continually to every gained experience – be in a state of choiceless awareness of what is.

When you are awake, you must be fully awake and conscious about everything. This is a wonderful exercise.

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the anticipation of suffering.

A concentrated mind is not an attentive mind, but a mind that is in a state of awareness can concentrate. Awareness is never exclusive, it includes everything.

Concentration is a narrowing down of the mind – but we are concerned with the total process of living, and to concentrate exclusively on any particular aspect of life, belittles life.

All thought is partial, is can never be total. Thought is the response of memory, and memory is always partial, because memory is the result of experience; so thought is the reaction of a mind which is conditioned by experience.

The mind must be wide open in order to function freely in thought. For a limited mind cannot think freely.

To bring the mind into sharp focus and to make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere, the mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought process, and even ordinary thought itself.

To be on the alert means to be deadly serious; to be deadly serious means to be sincere to oneself, and it is sincerity that finally leads to the Way.

Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.

Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere.

Mans’s mind and his behavior are one, his inner thought and outer expression cannot contradict each other. Therefore a man should set up his right principle, and this right mind (principle) will influence his action.

Don’t think – feel. Feeling exists here and now when not interrupted and dissected by ideas or concepts.

Just watch choicelessly and in the watching lies the wonder. It is not an ideal, an end to be desired. The watching is a state of “being” already, not a state of “becoming”.

Anxiety is the gap between the “now” and the “then”. SO if you are in the “now”, you can’t be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.