As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.
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As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.
Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
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