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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.

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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Proportion Running Transformation
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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Needs Reality Self
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
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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Challenges Feelings Gratitude
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
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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Belief Believe Looks
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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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Feet Sensible Years
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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Creativity Dark Mistakes
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Always Break Mind Through Trying
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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Mind Thinking Years
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding

We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.

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