A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
VERNON HOWARDWe are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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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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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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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