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