A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.
The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
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.
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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.
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.
The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.
Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
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.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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.
Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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.
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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.
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