No one can give you your freedom. You will feel free when being fully yourself is more important to you than controlling how others feel about you.
— Freedom is the letting go of the fictional personal “I.”
— You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
— Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already are it.
— We are perfection in process.
— If you think you can do it, or think you cannot do it; You are right.
— Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.
— The greatness you seek is within you. Look inside yourself and find the voice you’ve been ignoring for so long.
— If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
— Our visions begin with our desires.
— Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you’ll feel alive.
— One big step toward Awakening: drop the storyline of “me”.
— Peace seems scary, there’s no self-induced adrenaline in it. Who would you be without your story?
— Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
— Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
— As long as you have desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
— Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
— Sometimes the “call” is just a whisper.
— We become what we think about all day long.
— There isn’t a person anywhere who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can.
— Everyone is a mirror image of yourself – your own thinking coming back at you.
— Through inquiry, we discover how attachment to a belief or story causes suffering. Before the story there is peace. Then a thought enters, we believe it, and the peace seems to disappear.
— You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
— The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.
— Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn’t.
— Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
— When you practice contentment you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes I already have everything that I really need’.
— Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
— If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
— You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.
— Just one mental shift—focusing on the abundance of your environment—switches your psychological settings so that your life automatically improves in many areas you may think are unrelated. This is essentially a leap from fear to faith.
— Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins there and ends there.
— We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.
— Wherever you are, at whatever age, you’re only a thought away from changing your life.
— Relax and don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
— People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life
— Many times knowing what you don’t want to do opens up the path to know what you do want to do.
— When we realize that we can’t know anything, all suffering ends.
— Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own. Bruce Lee Self Awareness
— We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what’s wrong in our life, or we can focus on what’s right.
— Modesty is a learned affectation.
— It is okay to ask what you can give to yourself. In fact, it’s very okay. Personal ambition, personal happiness, and personal spiritual development stoke the fires of desire, of yearning, and of achievement. They are the cornerstones of evolution.
— Freedom is the letting go of the fictional personal “I.”
— To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
— All sadness is a tantrum.
— Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally… Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
— Stress is the signal that it is time to ask you, time to inquire from within, an opportunity for you to know the truth now.
— Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination—even you.
— Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.
— Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
— Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
— Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
— You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
— Who would I be without my lie?
— Would you rather be right or free?
— Affirmation plus action equals miracles.
— If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
— To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes Self Awareness
— It’s not to seek and find. It is simply to ask and wait.
— You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
— One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
— It is the Buddhist’s view that one’s own pleasure and pain are achieved by oneself and not generated from the outside.
— It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life ;it is how you handle what happens to you.
— When you believe that your problem is caused by someone else, then you are your own victim, and the situations appears to be hopeless.
— Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
— It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
— Most people are searching for happiness outside of themselves. That’s a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way that you think.
— We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
— When you know better, you do better.
— If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life.
— And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
— If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.
— Inquiry is love-making. Mind making love with the mind. Self understanding the Self.
— The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.
— Anytime you find yourself wanting sympathy, you’re trying to get someone to join you in your mythology. And it always hurts.
— When you question your stressful thoughts, you come to see that everything that has been troubling you is just a misunderstanding.
— You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way and the only way, it doesn’t exist.
— When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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