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.
VERNON HOWARDThe only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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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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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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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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