Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something…

Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.

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The only way you’re going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself. - View Quote Details on The only way you’re going to have a good relationship…
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…
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To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society. - View Quote Details on To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive…
Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you. - View Quote Details on Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with…
Why do you permit a mere word to stand in your way? Forget the word “difficult” and take your next step. - View Quote Details on Why do you permit a mere word to stand in…
Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have. - View Quote Details on Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask…
It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted? - View Quote Details on It is not a disaster to discover that you are…
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