Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.
Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today
What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!
Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are
We become what we love. What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life.
All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.
Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.
Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.
Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.
Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.
An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.
It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.
The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.
Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.
The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.
Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.
Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.
Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!
The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!
What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.
Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.
Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.
Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself
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