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Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.
Next time I will ..." "From now on I will ..." - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.
When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.
How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?
Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.
The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor
Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.
To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.
I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.
What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.
We are always influenced because we do not live in a vacuum together with our intentions. We are in a relationship with everything that occurs.
Sometimes I doubt, and sometimes I believe. I like not making myself believe when I am doubting and not making myself doubt when I am believing.
Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.
Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.
Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.
It is your right to be happy. This is what you were made for. And if you will not resist, happiness will find a way to pour from your heart and fill your days.
The way for me to live is to have no way. My only habit should be to have none. Because I did it this way before is not sufficient reason to do it this way today.
If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.
Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.
There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.
If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.
Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.
If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?
The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.
Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.
Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.
Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.
Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties. It is letting go of our pattern of reactions to those difficulties.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
To sing with the voice of angels as we do the work of angels. To laugh with the laugh of Buddha as we go to our awakening. To extend the arms of Jesus to welcome the presence of children and let them climb into our hearts.