The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.
Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.
Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.
Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"
The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
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.
The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.
You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.
Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
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.
Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.
We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.
In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.
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
Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.
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.
Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?
The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!
Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.
What you don't want to know about yourself wants to be known, which is why it keeps 'showing up' at your door unannounced!
The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome People Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power
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