"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.
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"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.
Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.
I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.
Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.
There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.
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