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.
The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
To change what you get you must change who you are.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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.
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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.
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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.
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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