William James Quotes

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

By living mindfully, you understand that there are many transitions in life. You just go through them.

The moment I started watching my thoughts, I realized how futile fear is.

Until you solve problems like fear individually, resolve why individuals feel the need to believe in whatever, there's really no point in organizations, in things that turn the world into a concept rather than an individual fact.

As you grow older, you want to learn, you want to change, you want to evolve and you don't want to live in fear. Fear is the mind killer.

I'm learning not to try to block everything.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for

When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.

Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

Never worry about things That you are unable to change. Change your own way Of looking at truth.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.