"[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority.  It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior."

"You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey...Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last."

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

It's easy to believe that toxins are assaulting us on all fronts, but the worst toxins are often within.  Worry is a toxin, envy is a toxin, self-loathing and fear and free-floating anxiety are all poisonous to our health.

"The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards."

"If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there’s a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is."

Forget perfect on the first try.  In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practiced two hundred times.  Seriously.

"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses!  How reluctantly the mind consents to reality."

"When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives."

"If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief -- always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don't actually believe it. You're only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn't."