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.
The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
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.
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.
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life. There is nothing we can DO to gain psychic beauty. It already exists without our effort. We need only be where we belong, that is, in self-union. Then, beauty IS.
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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.
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.
The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.
Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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.
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
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.
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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