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.
The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would your react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like that.
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.
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
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