A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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You must never fear anything at all.
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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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