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.
To change what you get you must change who you are.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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.
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.
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.
Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.
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.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
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 outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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.
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