Book excerpts:

"It is not possible to attain happiness without non-attachment"

"You don't need to seek understanding outside yourself - everything you want to know exists within yourself"

"Darkness cannot exist where there is light"

"Many people use their powers of reasoning cleverly to justify their delusions"

"If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you"

"You are a master when you can use your senses, but they don't use you"

"To be unhappy as you seek happiness defeats its own end. Happiness comes by being internally happy first, at all times, while struggling your utmost to uproot the causes of unhappiness"

"Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty"

"In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child - without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy"

"Real happiness can stand the challenge of all outer experiences. When you can bear the crucifixions of others' wrongs against you and still return love and forgiveness; and when you can keep that divine inner peace intact despite all painful thrusts of outer circumstance, then you shall know this happiness."