Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.
The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.
This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.
Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.
Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.
Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.
Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.