The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else.

You’d be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don’t understand your own capacities.

A positive response to any situation is the key to the feeling of well-being. The more we practice it the easier it becomes. Gradually all automatic reactions are being replaced by a conscious response. When...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively...

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one’s character through reasoning in a circumstance.

Today I began to criticise myself and look at myself with a judgmental eye… but then instead of going all out in that direction, I stopped and I began to understand me. And then I...

You are nature. You are already perfect, peaceful, and powerful. You don’t need to become anything. You simply need to remember yourself.

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.

Life is a conversation with yourself. And who are you if not the eternal presence behind everything that is, was, and will be? Like this, the blow of each breeze and the beauty of each...

The man that wars with and judges others is eternally lost. The man that wars with and judges himself is eternally found.

It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.

The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within...

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Greater in battlethan the man who would conquera thousand-thousand men,is he who would conquerjust one —himself.Better to conquer yourselfthan others.When you’ve trained yourself,living in constant self-control,neither a deva nor gandhabba,nor a Mara banded with Brahmas,could...

Time alone helps us to remember who we are.