Don’t do anything that you wouldn’t want to read about in the paper the next morning.
”There is no such thing as a mistake. ‘Mistake’ is a word we use to torture ourselves.
”Why are you unhappy?—Because 99.9% of everything you think and of everything you do is for yourself—and there isn’t one.
”When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.
”Listen: this world is the lunatic’s sphere, don’t always agree it’s real.
”There is one way to persuade. We live it.
”The three things that we humans crave most are appreciation, attention, and affection. And if you can give those to others, you can get anything you want.
”I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
”The secret of invincibility is utter and total defencelessness.
”If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
”Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
”Do everything with love.
”Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
”The only way to get to a place better than where you are, is to make peace with where you are.
”The more that you accept responsibility for, the more power you have.
”Wait in stillness, until you get what you came for.
”Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.
”Let your light shine.
”If you ask truly, “Who am I?” there’s no-one to answer.
”Thinking you have a choice—that’s painful.
”If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
”Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
”Once you know what you are looking for, it starts to show up.
”What I think about you is who I am.
”A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
”There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
”You can comb the mirror all you like. Your hair will never change.
”We believe that we are hurt when we do not receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love.
”We’re always teaching—not by what we say, but by what we do.
”Peace is who you already are, without a story.
”There are no ordinary moments.
”The only way out of difficulties with the world is knowing you are not the body.
”In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
”When we have no beliefs about how reality should look, we’re truly married, and it doesn’t hurt. It’s internal. There is no relationship outside that.
”Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
”Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say. is published around the world
”The worst that can happen is a thought.
”Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
”Don’t take life too seriouly, because you’ll never get out alive.
”The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
”You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
”When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
”The last place we look is the truth.
”It takes effort and agony not to love. It takes tremendous effort not to love everyone.
”We are waiting for just one teacher. You’re the one.
”The world does not need improving. You do not need improving. When you understand that, both you and the world will be much improved.
”Your fears are nothing more than a lack of integrity.
”Abundance is when everything is perfect as it is.
”Peace has no conditions.
”The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
”Do only what needs to be done, without using violence.
”If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what’s left is who you are.
”Those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do.
”If a piano and a guitar were both in tune and a G was played on the piano, the G string on the guitar would also vibrate.
”Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
”It is impossible to get love. Only by loving can one feel love.
”Being fascinated with uncovering the truth from a nest of evaluations is the best game in town.
”When you are thirsty, there’s no point reading a book on water.
”When you want what you get, you’ve always got what you want.
”The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
”When you’re not having fun, you’re sort of missing the point of being here.
”If you can’t do it, how can you expect the world to do it?
”Your definition of “reality” will expand as you transform your beliefs.
”I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
”The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.
”The quieter you get your mind, the more joyous you are.
”We should never forget: what we are looking for is what is looking.
”If you want to make money, help somebody else make money.
”Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
”What great and glorious adventure are you going to have today?
”The only real valuable thing is intuition.
”Being safe is not my business; my thinking is my business. What other business is there?
”Mounds of compliments can’t replace one insult. Choose your words carefully.
”No-one can do anything to us, no-one can do anything for us.
”Gratitude is what we are without a story.
”It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
”The one I’m with is always innocent.
”There’s only one reason why you’re not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it’s because you’re thinking or focusing on what you don’t have.
”I woke up this morning and saw that I didn’t.
”The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
”The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness.
”I am very clear that the whole world loves me. I just don’t expect them to realize it yet.
”Asking only costs a moment of embarrassment; not to ask is be embarrassed for life.
”Breath is the link between the inner and outer worlds.
”I trust people completely. I trust they will be exactly as they are. I trust they will lie. I trust they will tell the truth.
”Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
”If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.
”When you ask the question properly it answers itself.
”Every song ends. But is that any reason not to enjoy the music?
”Motivation is fear.
”Today I shall judge nothing that occurs.
”Sanity doesn’t suffer, ever.
”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
”All unhappiness is caused by comparison.
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If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
”We read the world wrongly and say that it deceives us.
”Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
”Becoming aware that what we see in others is a part of who we are is the first and most powerful step on the journey of self-discovery.
”Any desire is a limiting action upon ourselves.
”Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?
”Do not delay; the golden moments fly!
”The Earth would die if the Sun stopped kissing her.
”I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
”Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
”Play God—feel the pain.
”Success is the proper utilization of failure.
”Fearing doing something is far worse than actually flipping doing it.
”Even when you seem to be aware of yourself, you have made yourself into an object, a thought form, and so what you are aware of is a thought, not yourself.
”The reason people fear death is they project life onto it.
”Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
”Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
”Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
”No two people have ever met. People are who we believe them to be.
”The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.
”Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
”Wisdom tells me i am nothing. Love tells me i am everything. And between the two my life flows.
”When in doubt, tell the truth.
”Be the change you wish to see in the world.
”No-one has ever been angry at another human being—we’re only angry at our story of them.
”Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
”If you’re feeling great, if your body is feeling great, I think you can achieve pretty well anything.
”When you come to love yourself, you automatically love the other person. You can’t not.
”The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
”If I had a prayer, it would be this: ‘God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.’
”All you have ever longed for is here in this moment, right now.
”Everything you can imagine is real.
”See simplicity in complexity.
”Wanting what you get might be the best fun you ever had.
”When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
”If you would just be dead already, life would be a joy.
”Love is letting go of fear.
”The problem is a different vibrational frequency than the solution.
”A motive is just an unquestioned thought.
”There is no happiness in people or things.
”It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
”Personalities don’t love. They want something.
”There is no beginning of time, only beginning of thought.
”As long as I define God, I can’t know God.
”Why do we put off living the way we want to live as if we have all the time in the world?
”Don’t be spiritual; be honest instead.
”One of the marvels of the world is a soul in prison with the key in its hand covered with dust.
”It always seems impossible until it’s done.
”The only human drama is not wanting the experience we are currently having.
”God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
”I see with my heart and feel with my eyes. I touch with my ears and listen with my hands.
”At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
”There are no boring situations.
”The world rushes on over the strings of the lingering heart making the music of sadness.
”We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
”If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
”No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
”Every belief is an obstacle.
”Fear is two things. You think you’re not going to get something or you think you’re going to lose something.
”There is no-one out there but your story.
”You know what’s right for you each moment. Not fun or pleasurable or exciting—just right.
”Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
”The wound is the place where the light enters you.
”We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.
”Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared.
”Knowledge is past.
”If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
”Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
”Trying to get rid of a problem is holding onto it.
”Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
”In the midst of winter I find in myself at last invincible summer.
”We believe that one and one makes two. Yet this is false because there are not two exact alikes in our universe.
”When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100 percent of the time.
”What is love?—The total absence of fear, said the master.—What is it we fear?—Love, said the master.
”What you fail to do for another, you fail to do for yourself. What you do for yourself, you do for another. What you fail to do for yourself, you fail to do for another.
”Being at peace and being who you are, that is, being yourself, are one.
”Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
”Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
”Be careful of the gods you choose, for you will reinforce each other.
”Life isn’t as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
”To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything.
”What is life? It’s simple. It’s what you remember and what you anticipate.
”I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included.
”You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
”Do no harm. Start with yourself.
”All unhappiness starts from desire.
”With our thoughts we make the world.
”The ego’s job is to kill everything but itself.
”Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
”Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
”Let the beauty you love be who you are.
”Revere all of life in all its expressions, no matter what, even if one does not understand it.
”We tend to judge ourselves by our intent, and others by their behavior.
”Until you are loyal to yourself, you can’t be loyal to another person.
”If I want something from anyone, I suffer.
”True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
”Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
”Whatever you are, be a good one.
”If something changes, it wasn’t true the moment before.
”One day I just noticed that everything I was imagining was ridiculous.
”If you drop one tendency, you’re dropping millions of thoughts.
”Love is irresistible.
”What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
”If you try to dominate people, you’re already defeated.
”Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
”Count the number of enemies you have outside and that is the same number of enemies you have inside.
”Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.
”We say to others only what we need to hear.
”Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.
”In the presence of one who doesn’t see a problem, the problem falls away, which shows you there isn’t a problem.
”Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.
”Not only does EVERYTHING happen for a reason, everything happens for the SAME reason—to give us an opportunity to respond with love.
”Gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
”When you’re vibrating purely, you get only what’s a match to that.
”Love is our nature. It’s what we are without our stories.
”The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
”The more we love, the less we have to think.
”If you increase communication with an individual, you increase the love between the two of you.
”The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
”The only reason you want to understand a problem is because you are planning to have it again.
”Security is not having money; it’s knowing you can do without it.
”There isn’t anything serious to worry about, ever.
”Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!
”You don’t fight for peace, you peace for peace.
”When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
”Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
”The reason people have so much trouble running their brains is because the Earth is tilted on its axis. So actually you have someone else’s brain.
”When you truly love yourself, it’s not possible to project that other people don’t love you.
”Things happen by themselves. If I say “I’m doing it,” I miss the miracle.
”If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.
”Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
”See everyone as you.
”A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
”Love is what is left when you have let go of all the things you love.
”If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
”It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
”How do you keep your ego intact? Defence, of course.
”We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
”Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
”All you have is the now, so don’t miss that, everything else is only a concept.
”You can’t do anything really good until you truly don’t care whether you live or die.
”Live with passion!
”The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
”The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
”See nothing out there but your sum-total thinkingness.
”The thing you’re terrified of losing—you’ve already lost.
”If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion.
”You’re the one you’ve been waiting for. Marry you.
”Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.
”Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
”We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
”Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.
”Happiness is a way to travel, not a destination.
”Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external causes.
”Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
”Taking care of our neighbours’ interests is essentially taking care of our own future.
”The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
”All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
”The Universe is eavesdropping on your thoughts and matching them vibrationally. Make them special.
”The more you quieten your mind, the more powerful you get.
”When you think that people should be kind to you, the reverse is true.
”Everyone gets to take as long as they want before waking up to the realization that life is a love game.
”The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
”The worst thing that can happen is the best thing that can happen ... but only always.
”You need to have a very clear view of where you’re going. You need the windscreenwipers, but you’re honking the horn.
”Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
”Judge each day not by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
”The one thing “bad days” have over “good days,” is that they’re completely optional.
”Live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and you connect with the field of infinite possibilities.
”If we can’t be who we are, we should at least not be who we are not.
”No one will ever understand you. Realizing this is freedom. No one will ever understand you—not once, not ever.
”We don’t always get what we want, but we always get what we believe.
”Reality can be magnificent even when life is not.
”If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right.
”Treat others as ends, never as means.
”The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
”All your miseries equate to your need to be loved.
”The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
”In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.
”Smile like you know a great secret.
”If you are wanting wellness you must stop defending yourself against illness and give your attention to wellness.
”One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.
”If you want fear on purpose, just in case you’re bored, get a future.
”Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbour’s noisy party than being there.
”Reality is always kinder than our unquestioned thoughts.
”Reduce your desires and you reduce your problems.
”If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
”The respect you earn is no lesser or greater than your own self-respect.
”The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
”You’re not just a drop in the ocean, you’re also the mighty ocean in the drop.
”The truth FEELS GOOD.
”If someone loves me, what does that have to do with me?
”Competitiveness is based on scarcity.
”Appreciation is fertilizer for the soul.
”Love, to the personality, is nothing more than agreement.
”To love is to recognise yourself in another.
”Where there is great love there are always miracles.
”Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
”The fearless bliss of what it is to be humble!
”Wanting to be loved is getting into a direction that can never be satisfied.
”Suffering is optional.
”To undo one belief is to undo thousands of years in time.
”Only good happens. When someone leaves me, I’ve been spared.
”Suffering is not natural.
”One of the secrets to not worsening a condition or circumstance, is to never, ever talk about it.
”Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
”Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
”At any given moment we are demonstrating what we care about or value.
”All the stress that we feel is caused by arguing with what is.
”Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
”Your ego cannot dominate you when you are experiencing gratitude.
”The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
”I am the cause of my own suffering—but only all of it.
”Like stars, mists and candle flames, mirages, dewdrops and water bubbles, like dreams, lightning and clouds. In that way I will view all existence.
”Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
”Step aside from all thinking and there is nowhere you can’t go.
”The four gates of speech: Is it truthful? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Is it the right time?
”Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
”Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
”The worst that can happen to you is your uninvestigated belief system.
”If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
”Every true beginning starts with commitment.
”Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
”They can because they think they can.
”I’m my heaven. I’m my hell.
”Your wealth can only grow to the extent that you do.
”Any thought that you have is either an interpretation or a choice.
”Do you understand how adored you are?
”Be full, be humble, be utterly silent, be the bowl of wine passed from hand to hand.
”There are no physical problems—only mental ones.
”Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
”The mind does its best in its efforts to believe what isn’t.
”The original sin is to limit the Is.
”Intent has infinite organising power.
”No-one can hurt you. It’s not possible.
”They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.
”Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
”The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.
”Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happpens.
”The efficiency of Wu Wei is like that of water flowing over and around the rocks in its path.
”One who desires material objects is never peaceful.
”Your family is an echo of your own past beliefs.
”Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
”Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.
”When I approach everything as an opportunity to heal, there is nothing that will not be available to me.
”I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
”At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish.
”Every thought is a limitation.
”What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?
”You don’t experience anxiety unless you’ve attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.
”You can have a love story replace a hate story by just changing your thoughts—in any moment of your life.
”If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it.
”The universe loves you completely or you wouldn’t be here.
”How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.
”Children learn to smile from their parents.
”Even after all this time the Sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me.”
”You can’t cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
”When we take such good care of ourselves that we have all that we need, the overflow to generosity with others is possible.
”Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.
”Take all your happiness from you.
”The reason I made friends with reality is that I discovered I didn’t have a choice.
”It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
”The conditional Universe is an illusion created by women with balloons.
”All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other.
”Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
”We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
”Every moment of your life you have an infinity of choices available to you, but the law of karma says that out of that infinity of choices, there’s one choice that is karmically most appropriate, and that one choice is that choice that will bring joy to you and will bring joy to everyone who’s affected by that choice.
”I don’t tell the story about where I’m going, I just go.
”We can understand almost anything, but we can’t understand how we understand.
”Trying is wanting approval for something you have no intention of doing.
”If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the whole world.
”The greatest happiness is to be at peace with yourself.
”Space is a construct that gives us the illusion that there are separate objects.
”The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
”Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
”Love and do what you will.
”Watch out for thoughts that appear to justify or explain this unhappiness but in reality cause it.
”Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
”To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
”I bet you could do something for someone today who’d remember it for the rest of their life.
”A magnet is not anxious about how it works.
”Don’t ask the question. Know the answer.
”Be not a body and the world is a dream… a beautiful dream.
”Anything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself, and wait for the answer in silence.
”Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
”Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
”Each one of us has no limits except those that we hold onto subconsciously.
”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
”Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation—from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
”Until you can be comfortable anywhere, any time, you’re work’s not done.
”Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
”Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.
”The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
”All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.
”The pain we feel about a past event is created in the present.
”Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
”The only reason you wouldn’t live in the moment is if you thought you were a body and you had to take care of it tomorrow.
”The fruits of work should not be your motive.
”You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
”The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
”Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no ‘you,’ only love.
”Great reservoirs of power lie untapped within humanity, waiting for the magic of co-operation to unleash.
”Love is the answer to all problems.
”Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled. Nor ask of things to break their seals. Unseal yourselves, and all will be unsealed.
”You can’t disappoint another human being. And another human being can’t disappoint you.
”You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.
”Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
”The price of greatness is responsibility.
”The only thing you can ever experience is yourself.
”Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
”Love yourself so much that nothing ever disturbs the Peace that you are.
”Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.
”The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
”A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
”The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception.
”Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
”Have no attachments and no aversions and you will have everything.
”Be not the doer, be the witness.
”The idea is in thyself. The impediment too, is in thyself.
”The worst that can happen is the truth.
”When you’re trying to get what you want out of life, life can be very hard. When you learn to want what you get in your life, life can become very easy.
”Whether we like it or not, we’re all connected, and it is unthinkable to be happy all by oneself.
”At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
”Happiness is an inside job.
”I think we agree, the past is over.
”Be careful not to waste the present moment on useless worrying.
”Don’t be careful, you could hurt yourself.
”Love is giving people the space to be who they are, and who they are not.
”It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
”It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
”Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
”Anything you do to overcome or prevent, causes a spotlight on the very thing you are wanting to overcome and prevent.
”If you can’t do it, it can’t be done. You’re the one.
”Mind is so simple, there’s nothing to understand about it.
”Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
”Every weakness is a strength out of balance.
”What’s happening now can never be. What is, is now ‘was.’
”Money won’t make you happy ... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
”Poverty is internal. Every time you think you know something, you’re experiencing poverty.
”When you have no more desire, you have no more thoughts.
”I think therefore I am confused.
”The heart is a thousand-stringed instrument that can only be tuned with Love.
”If pendulum-type grandfather clocks were mounted against a wall with their pendulums swinging out of phase to one another, in a matter of days, their pendulums would lock into phase and beat together.
”The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
”Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
”Only you can deprive you, God doesn't have that power.
”It’s not the strongest that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
”Teachers don’t have a lot of fun.
”Love eliminates fear. Love is the ultimate.
”Life is a lot more fun if you say ‘YES’ than if you say ‘No.’
”No-one has a memory. Thoughts simply appear now.
”Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
”A possibility was born the day you were born, and it will live as long as you live.
”Do you know that you can make people happy by just listening to them? Do you know that you can make yourself happy by listening to others?
”Joy, truth, love. These three are interchangeable, and one always leads to the other.
”We tend to live up to our expectations.
”Be the person you want to find.
”You have been unable to fix yourself because there is nothing wrong with you.
”When we love, and only love, we are using the most formidable power in the universe.
”You cannot trust your physical senses to give you a true picture of reality. They are lovely liars, with such a fantastic tale to tell that you believe it without question.
”Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
”Love is the Great Motivator. Fear is inefficient.
”You can have anything you want if you’ll just help enough people get what they want!
”Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
”Let things alone and labour not to change them. For they seem what they seem only because you seem what you seem.
”Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
”Love whispered in my ear, better be game than hunter.
”I don’t mind what happens.
”Any time one feels good, one is loving. Any time one feels bad, one is not loving.
”In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
”No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
”See everyone as a brand new challenge to fall in love.
”Look in the direction of where you want to be!
”The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
”Enthusiasm has a high energy frequency and so resonates with the creative power of the universe.
”An unwillingness to forgive is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
”Humility is the true resting place.
”Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it a seed of equal or greater benefit.
”No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
”Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
”If you want fear on purpose, get a plan.
”I’ll not ask others to become different for me.
”Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
”What we think, we become.
”Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it.
”Do not allow anything to be an obstacle. see everything as a stepping stone to victory.
”Your goals should stem from your values, then your work will radiate your heart’s desire.
”We fear what isn’t—never what is.
”We are really alive when we live in non-belief—open, waiting, trusting, and loving to do what appears in front of us now.
”Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed—borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.
”You can’t fear what you can see.
”Either you run the day or the day runs you.
”When change comes it always means there’s something better.
”Always think that what you have to do is easy and it will become so.
”We’re an interesting species. We’re afraid to live. And we’re afraid to die. And we’re afraid of everything in between.
”Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.
”Happiness is just a thought away.
”If I don’t have it, it’s because I don’t need it.
”Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
”I am realistic—I expect miracles.
”When the ‘I’ arises, just know you're going into a story.
”God does not play dice.
”The more you are prepared to close your eyes and take a leap of faith over the stony cliff of everyday logic, the nearer you come to learning to fly.
”Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
”Right now there is no choice. The choice exists only in the next moment.
”Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it! Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin It Now.
”Remember a dry spell causes a tree’s root to go deeper.
”Desires are our enemy.
”The more we say thank you, the more we feel our abundance.
”Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
”Everything happens in its own right time, you need not force it.
”When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
”We will never be in a more difficult life than we are right now.
”The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
”Revolutions always come around again.
”I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are details.
”Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination—even you.
”Life is a mirror image of what you’re imagining to be true.
”You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.
”Let things alone and labour not to change them. For they seem what they seem only because you seem what you seem.
”Gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
”Very little is needed to make a happy life.
”A mind that loves reality is the only freedom.
”Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful.
”Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.
”The primary cause of stress, depression, and anger is ‘living in a story and lying to maintain it.’
”Just love, love, love and you will be so happy and healthy and prosperous.
”Let the beauty we love be what we do, there are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.
”Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
”Maybe everything we’ve ever done has been for love.
”Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
”Spread the Word and the word is Love.
”If not now ... when?
”You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
”There is absolutely no need to be upset with your past, present or future behaviour.
”Amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.
”We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we suffer.
”When you become a lover of what is, there are no more decisions to make.
”Ultimately, I am all I can know.
”All illnesses, whether psychological or physical, are stress-related
”You can get anything you want if you just ask enough people.
”Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
”Everyone has Alzheimer’s.
”The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.
”I always have the perfect amount of money for me right now.
”Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark—hopeless.
”Nothing interrupts the mind like telling the truth.
”There’s no one out there but your story.
”God always takes the simplest way.
”The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can’t predict what they will do.
”People only see what they are prepared to see.
”All sadness is a tantrum. It’s the war with God, the war with reality—all sadness. And you lose.
”Do you understand how the creation of this planet, the creation of this universe, fits together for the perfection of your experience?
”The only way around is through.
”The easiest thing in the universe to do is to love everyone.
”Nothing was ever born but a dream. Nothing ever dies but a dream.
”Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
”The sinner and the saint are merely exchanging notes. The saint has a past and the sinner has a future.
”Ask yourself often: what can I give here, how can I be of service to this person, this situation?
”When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
”Live the life you’ve imagined.
”The conventional way to suffer through life is to build a case for ourselves.
”You must become consciously aware of what you tell yourself is true every moment of the day, for that is the reality that you project outward.
”Life is simple. There isn’t any.
”Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
”All experience happens for one purpose only: to expand your awareness. Any other meaning you see in your life experience is a meaning you made up.
”Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don’t have any other business.
”I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
”Generate great compassion, and you become a friend to the world.
”Love is the only rational act.
”You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
”Everything in the world is mental. Whatever you think, is. You’re always right because you think so.
”Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.
”It is not the mountains ahead that wear you out. It’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
”The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
”They’re going to feed you into the Total Perspective Vortex.
”It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
”Morality is of the highest importance—but for us, not for God.
”Concentration is the secret of strength.
”We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.
”If you want to see the love of your life, look in the mirror.
”Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
”Creativeness is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
”When the power of love overcomes the love or power, the world will know peace.
”Accept responsibility for your life. It is you who will take you where you want, no-one else.
”Fresh from the Void, the moon on the waves of the sea.
”My religion is to stay present, that’s all.
”That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.
”Manipulation never works.
”One should strive to love, never to be loved.
”Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
”The more we are our real self, the more joyous we feel.
”I am not young enough to know everything.
”Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
”Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
”How many are the things I can do without!
”Fortune favors the brave.
”The best way to hide a leaf is in the forest.
”We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
”What we love is to love.
”Give up defining yourself.
”The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
”We call it ‘verbal abuse’ when someone tells us the truth about ourselves and we don’t want to hear it.
”When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
”Let your words create your world.
”Effort is ego in action.
”To Love is to know Me.
”The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
”Enthusiasm is contagious. It’s difficult to remain neutral or indifferent in the presence of a positive thinker.
”A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
”When you understand, she’ll follow you, she’ll understand. It’s a law, because she’s your projection.
”Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
”I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
”Don’t seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinion.
”Only an enemy gives us the opportunity to practise patience.
”Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
”The skilled walker leaves no tracks.
”Every day is my best day; this is my life; I’m not going to have this moment again.
”Think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.
”As we see ourselves, so we see the world.
”There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
”If you want to expand your mind then, every day, spend as much time as possible with your heart.
”The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
”Any time you come in with your plan, it’s going to hurt.
”Through the corridor of my joy is the pathway to my desire.
”Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
”You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.
”Acknowledge ignorance like it is gold.
”This above all: to thine own self be true.
”Only the fear of not being loved hurts.
”Without a story there is only love.
”Happiness is an imaginary condition.
”No word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
”Until you love your thoughts, you can’t love us.
”Many failures are people who didn’t realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
”The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
”Nothing’s wasted in nature.
”What we dwell on is who we become.
”Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
”Who you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you’re saying.
”For me, reality is God because it rules.
”Better to fail at what you love than succeed at something you hate.
”You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
”Remember to be here now.
”You’re the one you’ve been waiting for all your life.
”Whatever you fear most has no power—it is your fear that has the power.
”Dance first, think later. It’s the natural order.
”The unenlightened mind must believe in order to exist.
”Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
”Desire is an artificially created lack.
”Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
”If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?
”If someone loves me, they’re believing their thoughts about me.
”Effort is the opposite of power.
”Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
”The worst that could happen to you is a belief.
”In order to avoid something, you have to hold onto it. Otherwise you don’t know what it is you’re avoiding.
”If you speak the truth long enough, your word becomes universal law.
”Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
”Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.
”You teach best what you most need to learn.
”It is not a possibility to persuade anyone. There is no-one to persuade.
”Everything that you think, say, and do instructs another.
”What I dream of is an art of balance.
”You created me—don’t you get it?
”Be yourself—everyone else is taken.
”Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
”No matter where you go, there you are.
”The more you find good in another, the more you’ll find good in yourself.
”If we don’t question what we believe, we’re destined to live it out.
”You can either run from it or learn from it.
”Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
”When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
”A goal is a dream with a deadline.
”If we think we need something, we think of ourselves as being limited.
”If you want to be free, use memories, but do not allow memories to use you.
”When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
”Ultimately, you’re the one you’re dating.
”Anyone can count the number of seeds in an apple. But no-one can count the number of apples in one seed.
”Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
”The path is clear. So why do you throw stones before you?
”Do unto others as you truly feel like doing unto others.
”When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.
”We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.
”Today is your last chance to do something about tomorrow.
”Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
”Let’s get loose with compassion.
”My momma always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
”“You” cannot seek love, approval, or appreciation from others, only a facade can do that!
”To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed.
”The Universe just happens and we make meanings up.
”The only thing between you and being totally unlimited is your mind. You’ve been operating this mind for billions of years.
”Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
”I’m your own voice echoing off the walls of God.
”The moon asked me to meet her in a field tonight. I think she has amorous ideas.
”Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
”As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
”Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.
”Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
”The only meaningful relationship is the one you have with yourself. Are you in love yet?
”Don’t say anything that you don’t want to become true for you.
”To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
”When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.
”People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.
”Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
”How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours.
”Money’s boring, it just sits there.
”Eighty percent of success is showing up.
”You can’t disappoint another human being, you can only disappoint yourself.
”The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
”Discover the enormous power that flows through you into the world when you stop emphasizing your form-identity.
”Hardships still come one upon the other, enabling me to see if my mind truly has cast off the world or not.
”My beliefs are the only garment I put on that don’t suit me.
”Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
”Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
”Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
”Who would I be without my lie?
”If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
”Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens.
”Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
”Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.
”I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
”The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.
”Suffer not one exception.
”No one can disappoint you; only your thoughts about them can.
”A life spent loving is a life well-spent.
”Only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
”You want something?—Go get it.—Period.
”Be unnecessarily kind.
”There’s not enough negativity in the entire world that can eclipse the power of one pure, positive thought.
”Nothing happens that is not for the good. And if I can’t see that, I’m insane, and I suffer.
”I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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Mountain garden
a rabbit came
its summer living
room
Yesterday’s liberating insight is today’s jail of stale explanation.
”Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
”To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
”Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
”Desires are an admission of lack.
”Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
”Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
”We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
”I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
”Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
”Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
”Whatever happens to us originates in the mind.
”Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
”We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
”There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
”I am only wrong in your opinion, and your opinion grows me.
”
The temple bell stops
but I still hear the
sound coming out
of the flowers
Love each other or perish.
”To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
”Can you really know better than God?
”Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
”When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.
”I and the present moment are one.
”Notice the moment when love is exchanged for chaos in your world today.
”Hey, I’m all that exists. I can do anything!
”When we are ready to make positive changes in our lives, we attract whatever we need to help us.
”When you choose the input, you choose the output.
”The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire.
”Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
”What we speak becomes the house we live in.
”Surviving kills me.
”Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
”Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
”Is our body separate? Can it exist without air?
”Love is the ability not to hurt or be hurt.
”Scientists investigating the visible universe cannot uncover the form of God, any more than a person watching a television screen can see the producer of the show.
”I recommend that people tell the truth because all stress is caused by lying.
”Be the change you want to see in the world.
”We don’t have to have pain, we just think we do, so we do.
”To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
”Everything I’m defending against is the truth that I don’t want to see.
”That only which we have within, can we see without.
”We suffer only until we realize that we can’t know anything.
”Everything is a non-issue until someone decides otherwise.
”Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego- frustration.
”Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
”Forgiveness is realising that what you thought happened, didn’t.
”Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
”Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
”You alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
”Decisions are happenings that you take credit for.
”Love is the most powerful force in the universe.
”We are causing what’s happening to us by giving power, our power, to the external world.
”Intensity coupled with commitment is magnetic.
”Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
”Everything in your world is created by what you think.
”You can never be hurt when you love.
”No-one can hurt me—that’s my job.
”Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
”Non-Judgment Day is near
”The pain lies in the difference of what we think should happen and what actually happens.
”If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
”Follow the simple directions.
”The Universe totally supports us in every thought we choose to think and believe.
”Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?
”Nothing comes to an end but the ego’s chatter. Nothing. Without the ego’s chatter, there’s no life.
”Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
”Defence is the first act of war. Notice.
”There is nothing wrong with you.
”If you’re not scared of looking an idiot, then you can do anything you want, can’t you.
”That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
”That which is like unto itself is drawn.
”Your dreams are waiting for you to come true.
”You going to freak out or eat orange? Pick one.
”May the force be with you.
”Ease becomes you.
”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
”Spirituality really means practicality.
”Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
”The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
”The pain you create is always some form of nonaccceptance, unconscious resistance to what is.
”I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
”What internal environment are you creating? Look at the world, that’s it exactly.
”Believing that what you want equals what’s best for you is a dead end
”Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
”Any behaviour that is not love is a call for love.
”There is nothing we can do that doesn’t help the planet.
”A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
”I come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars.
”You are the only one you need. And all of the rest of life is just a bonus.
”We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
”Without love, we are birds with broken wings.
”Can you imagine, without comparison, how perfect you are?
”Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
”If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
”You don’t have anything to lose, you’re dead already. Be a fool!
”If you say that you can’t have joy unless I do something, you limit your joy.
”The solution to problems can normally be found just by looking in the mirror.
”I am a lover of reality. When I argue with WHAT IS, I lose—but only 100% of the time.
”Feelings only lie.
”Notice what happens in the space you have created.
”No two people have ever met.
”Respect yourself and others will respect you.
”Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
”Do three things every day that are really helpful. And don’t get found out.
”The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
”People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
”Only in this moment (which doesn’t exist) are you in reality.
”Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
”Don’t look back, you’re not going that way.
”There is nothing more exciting than loving what is.
”If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
”The past can’t repeat itself. There’s no past.
”What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
”No-one can make you do anything.
”When someone asks what there is to do, light the candle in their hand.
”Taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
”Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.
”By God, when you see your beauty, you’ll be the idol of yourself.
”We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
”Want to make a contribution to the whole world? Okay, end your own suffering. It’s the most responsible thing you could ever do.
”A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
”Don’t wear clothes that don’t fit you.
”The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
”Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.
”The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.
”Surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
”The Hindu scriptures declare that those who habitually speak the truth develop the power of materializing their words.
”The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.
”Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
”It takes the whole world to tell you who you are.
”That which you have longed for and admired and loved is within you.
”Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.
”When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
”Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.
”Stillness rocks.
”If you enjoy the process, it’s your dream. If you are enduring it, desperate for the result, it’s somebody else’s.
”How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?
”When there’s a full love, you feel yourself as the other person.
”Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.
”All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.
”In an infinite Universe anything can happen.
”Giving is spontaneous, and only the story of a future, a story about what they owe you for it, would keep you from knowing your own generosity. What comes back is none of your business.
”True victory is Self-Victory.
”You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
”To use the mind as it’s all too commonly used, on the kinds of things that it’s usually used on, is about as inefficient and inappropriate as using a magic sword to open up a can of beans.
”There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.
”If I’m not loving you, I have to be on guard. I have to protect myself.
”Stress is resistance to living in this moment.
”Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
”You might as well enjoy what is, it’s all you’ve got. And you don’t really know for sure that you don’t want it, because you’ve always been off looking at how you’d rather life were.
”The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
”Dream giant golden Buddha-sized dreams.
”If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
”I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
”One of the sweetest gifts is that no-one can help you.
”Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
”Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again.
”Nothing happens until I say so.
”Above all else, be gentle.
”Mind is cause. And life is the effect.
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