Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.
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!
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.
If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.
Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.
Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.
You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.
Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.
Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.
When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.
The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!
If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.
No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.
Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.
The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.
The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.
Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.
The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.
Nothing glows brighter than the heart awakened to the unseen light of love that lives within it.
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.
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.
One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.
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.
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