A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
VERNON HOWARDAn obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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