The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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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Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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