“if you provide yourself with the experiences you seek, this significantly decreases the frantic quality many people have when pursuing the symbols of life. ‘I can’t be happy until I get …’ ‘I won’t rest until I …’ ‘My life isn’t complete until I …’ There’s not a desire or intention we can’t fulfill for [...]
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“Never think anything to be of benefit to you that makes you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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I know that those times when I have suffered the most emotional turmoil (stress) are those times when I have made choices that were the furthest from my personal integrity. These were not necessarily immoral [...]
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“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it: men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts, we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we [...]
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“Always a person finds his true self when he walks the Within Trail. … He finds the quiet waters and looks at their reflection. Always he must accept what he sees in those waters before he can go on. … All other paths depend on this great acceptance and what he does with it”
“What blocks [...]
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“Attachment creates fear that gets in your way: … ‘What if this happens, what if that happens, what if …’ …Your belief that everything must work out exactly as you want it to with no glitches creates enormous pressure. Being nonattached, however, creates emotional freedom. Non-attachment means: “I’ll do everything possible, I’ll put the odds [...]
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“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; They try to have more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have [...]
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“Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
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The concept of “…only when I STOP pursuing what I want, do I ever get it” never stops to amaze me! The idea of “attracting” what I desire [...]
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