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“You have to face your responsibilities to evolve.”
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“Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.”
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“I am not concerned with the consequences of being true.”
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“Truth seems harsh and negative only to dishonest people; dishonest people who would rather attack than yield.”
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“Heaven is the nonexistence of the thought-self.”
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“Life cannot make sense on the level of life.”
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“The truly necessary and vital is to realize we are here on earth to rise above ourselves”.
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“No one can fall under the evil influence of another unless he is already under the evil influence of himself.”
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“You should never give up, for truth never gives up on you.”
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"The shocking revelation that you are no one at all is healed instantly by the understanding that you need not be anyone at all."
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“You are forbidden to put pressure on another human being in order to get what you want from him.”
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“Think about the miracle of saving yourself.”
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“Make the pain get worse so you can see it. Let the pain get as bad as we can bear and then add to it.”
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“No one loves me? What has that to do with me?”
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“If Truth is leading you it will also make decisions for you. And since these decisions are right they will also make you feel right.”
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“You are here on earth to find yourself, not prove yourself.”
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“Place no one, nothing, above the Spirit of Truth.”
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“Keep going in spite of all obstacles, not knowing what is going to become of you.”
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“The way to inner success is utterly simple. Just do what is unpopular but right.”
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“The entire human problem resides in a peculiarity of human nature — its unwillingness to explore human nature.”
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“Inner liberation can be described as a condition in which you no longer take either credit or blame for anything.”
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“Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.”
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“A reminder: You are not here on earth to live up to the expectations of others. You are here to develop into a whole and happy human being.”
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“Freedom is not the opposite of your usual state, but above it. Liberty is vertical, not horizontal.”
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“Do you want to please others, or the Truth within?”
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“What the world has done to you, Truth can undo.”
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"To have quietness you must give up noise."
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“Think from Truth about life, not from life about Truth.”
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“The struggle comes to an end when there is no ‘for’ and ‘against’.”
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“For the sake of rightness I must learn to disappoint others and myself.”
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“I don’t learn by doing what I always do. I learn by doing what I can’t do.”
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“Your patience and persistence will develop into valuable self-knowledge.”
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“An evil man slanders the Truth because of the hell he feels for doing it.”
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“A lost human being doesn’t care if he wrecks the whole world, as long as he feels the sick pleasure in the wrecking.”
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“Seek only the high places and you will have everything.”
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“A false man loses even when he appears to win. A True Man wins even when he appears to lose.”
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"To have quietness you must give up noise."
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“The world is destroyed by ‘good’ people.”
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“It is your moral duty to be happy.”
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“Defeat has no right to exist.”
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“All hostility is enmity against God.”
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“Give needed thought to your outer future, but give your whole life to your inner future.”
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“A free man is free because at one point in his life he became willing to hear what he did not want to hear.”
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“Just now we have neurotic energy — hatred, etc. God’s energy is pure, but it is distorted on the intellectual level.”
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“Individual receptivity is absolutely everything. Without it, nothing changes. With it, all things are possible for you.”
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“Never, never, never, rescue yourself. If you do you will have to go through the experience again.”
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“False spiritual work keeps you comfortable. Real spiritual work makes you uneasy.”
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“Loneliness is caused by trying to find a sense of completion where it can’t be found.”
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“The secret of spiritual success is to be utterly discouraged but to continue to work.”
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“Be curious, not furious.”
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“A sane mind never tries to help settle differences between two insane minds.”
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“If you want to know who you are not, you are not your biography of yourself.”
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“Both the problem and the solution are within ourselves.”
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“The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.”
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“My greatest hell is to try to convince myself I’m right when I’m wrong.”
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“You can trust Truth because it is the only thing that is not in trouble with itself. Spirit is heavenly, mind is earthly. There is heaven on earth when the spirit guides the mind.”
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“Your anxiety belongs to you. It does not and cannot belong to me. I need not: feel responsible for it; try to ease your pain from it; feel guilty over it; converse with you about it; give my attention to it; feel sympathetic toward you over it; be anxious toward it; react with confusion toward it; be burdened by it; get involved in any way with it. Your anxiety belongs to you. It does not and cannot belong to me.”
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“You are saved when you invite spiritual perception, which will give you spiritual renewal, the discovery being that truth, God, resides above the way your mind operates in opposites. You rise above the opposites, and truth is there. You rise above them and your new nature is there. Your true nature is above your mind. Eventually you won’t think about spirituality. You will know it, you will have it, and you will live it. ”
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“I will explain to you why you’re not happy, why you’re not carefree. It’s because you’re trying to collect things. You’re a collector, and you think that every time you get one of those objects that you desire so fervently it adds something to you, to your security. Well, I would guess that if you take paper and pencil and write down all the things you’ve acquired — friends, romances, exciting occasions, physical objects — it would number in the thousands, wouldn’t it, tens of thousands of things you have possessed for a few seconds or maybe several years. Maybe you’ve had that house for 50 years, for example. How come you’re still worried?”
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