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If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control.
End the habit of despising things that are not within your power, and apply your aversion to things that are within your power.
Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.
For as long as the Source entrusts something to your hands, treat it as something borrowed, like a traveller at an inn.
If you wish to be free, do not desire anything that depends on another, lest you make them your master.
Think of life as a banquet. If a dish is handed to you, sample it with gratitude. If you’re waiting for a particular platter to come around, do not lunge for it—be patient. If it passes you by, don’t complain.
You cannot choose the era, nationality, family, and body into which you are born. But to act well in your given role—this is your sphere of power.
“Nothing is foreboding to me. All signs point to good luck, if I interpret them that way. Whatever life brings, I can use it to my advantage.”
Whenever misfortune befalls you, ask yourself how you would react if it were someone else in the same situation.
No one can steal your peace of mind unless you let them.
When you understand that outside events do not touch your deepest self—what matters is your interpretation and reaction—you can use any circumstance to your benefit.
Unless you perfectly understand another’s motives, how can you judge them? Do not mistake your impressions for the whole truth.
do not spew your undigested thoughts; show their results in action.
Lead me, Fate, wherever you will, and I will cheerfully follow. For, even if I kick and wail, all the same I must follow.
