I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
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I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently
The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.
Become conscious of being conscious.
But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice.
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole
Curving back within myself I create the world around me.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
The human condition: lost in thought.
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
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