If you hand a man a lemon and tell him…
If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?
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- A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness. - View Quote Details on A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results…
- A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. He does not really seek happiness, rather he seeks for a condition which matches his personl idea regarding the nature of happiness. But happiness is not a mere idea, for one idea will always have competition from another idea. The is why the unhappy man chases for ever from one attraction to another. Happiness will come when he stops chasing, that is, when he stops thinking that an idea about happiness is the same as happiness. A man enjoying the sunshine does so without analysing it. - View Quote Details on A person obsessed with the need to be happy will…
- We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help. - View Quote Details on We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never…
- We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything. - View Quote Details on We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take…
- Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth. - View Quote Details on Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering…
- Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge. - View Quote Details on Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.
- What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, ‘Who is living my life for me?’ Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong? - View Quote Details on What a dawning appears to the man or woman who…
- The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money. - View Quote Details on The power of fantasy is so strong that people think…
- The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes. Don’t add to them. Be real, not impressive. - View Quote Details on The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes…
- Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by. - View Quote Details on Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the…
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