A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
VERNON HOWARDNo 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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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An 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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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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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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Who asks a king for a penny?
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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