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changing the way you prioritize your life ensures a fruitful one.
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When you refrain from engaging in judgments based solely on looks, you paradoxically become an instrument for change.
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Be diligent.
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Wealth is the fruit of generosity.
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Stillness and tranquility set things in order in the universe.
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Your primary relationship needs to be with yourself, not your family, business, country, culture, or ethnicity.
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all people, regardless of their geographic location or belief system, are connected to each other by their originating spirit.
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IF If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream--and not make dreams your master; If you can think--and not make th..
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Give up needing to control. Begin a conscious program of surrendering, and allowing your world and everyone in it to do as they are ordained to do.
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greatness is every person's heritage.
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When you stay "in-form" (in your body and the material world), you're rewarded with information. But move beyond form (transform to spirit) and you'll receive inspiration."
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Your attachments to objects, status, your culture, and even other people prevent you from being free
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wu-wei, or "not forcing," which means to take the line of least resistance in all of one's actions, and by doing so, create more strength."
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Wisdom connects you to your heart in your waking moments;
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all of life is a movement toward perfection,
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As your thinking changes from a position dictated by your ego to one that transcends it, you'll see an illuminated world that is truly inviting.
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The ultimate act that enlightens involves no action at all.
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True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.
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And you, dear reader, have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times? A good question to ask yourself as you work toward more spontaneity in your life.
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Being spontaneous means eliminating your prejudgments and allowing yourself to meet and deal with new people and ideas. The prejudgments themselves are a safety valve for avoiding murky or puzzling provinces and preventing growth. If you don't trust anyone you can't get a "handle on"; it really means you don't trust yourself on unfamiliar grounds."
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Things can break down, a depression can wipe out your money, your house can be repossessed, but you, you can be a rock of self-esteem.
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There may, however, be occasions when you will fail in some given task according to your own standards. The important thing here is not to equate the act with your own self-worth. Not to succeed in a particular endeavor is not to fail as a person. It is simply not being successful with that particular trial at that particular present moment.
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There is no percentage in rebelling just for the sake of rebelling, but there are great rewards in being your own person and living your life according to your own standards.
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You do not have to be always as your culture expects you to be. If you are, and feel an inability to be otherwise; you are indeed a follower, one of a flock who allows others to determine his course. Leading your own life involves flexibility and repeated personal assessments of how well the rule works at a particular present moment. True, it's often easier to follow, to blindly do as you're told, but once you recognize that the law is ther..
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Resisting enculturation means making decisions for yourself and carrying them out as efficiently and quietly as possible. No bandwagons or hostile demonstrations where they will do no good. The foolish rules, traditions and policies will never go away, but you don't have to be a part of them. Just shrug as others go through their sheep motions. If they want to behave that way, fine for them but that's not for you. To make a big fuss is almo..
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Stop waiting for others to change. Ask yourself why others should be different simply because you would like it better if they were. Recognize that every person has a right to be whatever they choose, even if you irritate yourself about it.
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Decide that any and all unhappiness that you choose will never be the result of someone else, but rather that it will be the result of you and your own behavior. Remind yourself constantly that any externally caused unhappiness reinforces your own slavery, since it assumes that you have no control over yourself or them, but they have control over you.
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Remind yourself that what other people do is not what bothers you, it's your reaction to it. Instead of saying "They shouldn't do that," say, "I wonder why I bother myself with what they are doing."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in Literary Ethics in 1838, "Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning anecdote, all flock to their aid." What a beautiful thought. Stay with tradition and you ensure that you'll always be the same, but toss it aside, and the world is yours to use as creatively a..
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You can choose how you'll introduce people, what you'll tip, what you'll wear, how you'll speak, where you'll sit, how you'll eat, and so on, strictly on the basis of what you want. Anytime you fall into the trap of "What should I wear," or "How should I do it," you're giving up a chunk of yourself. I'm not making a case here for being a social rebel since that would be a form of approval-seeking through nonconformity, but rather this is a ..
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We are conditioned to look for justice in life and when it doesn't appear, we tend to feel anger, anxiety or frustration. Actually, it would be equally productive to search for the fountain of youth, or some such myth. Justice does not exist. It never has, and it never will. The world is simply not put together that way. Robins eat worms. That's not fair to the worms. Spiders eat flies. That's not fair to the flies. Cougars kill coyotes. Co..
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Your mind-set goes something like this: "If they can do it, so can I." "It's not fair for you to have more than I." "But I didn't get to do that, why should you?" On and on they go. In this case you're determining what is good for you on the basis of someone else's conduct. They, not you, are in charge of your emotions. If you are upset because of not being able to do something that someone else has done, then you've given them control over..
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Instead of thinking of anything as being unfair, you can decide what you really want, and then set about devising strategies for attaining it, independent of what anyone else in the world wants or does. The simple facts are that everyone is different, and no amount of your bitching about others having it better than you will bring about any positive self-changes.
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Practice gratitude and contentment every day.
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The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to take charge of yourself, to make your own choice, ask yourself an important question, "How long am I going to be dead?" With that eternal perspective, you can now make your own choice and leave the worrying, the fears, the question of whether you can afford it and the guilt to those who are going to be alive forever."
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Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.
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Once you learn that you can feel what you choose to feel, you will be on the road to "intelligence"--a road where there are no bypaths that lead to [Nervous Break Downs]"
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Eliminate jealousy by recognizing it is a put-down of yourself. By comparing yourself to some other person and imagining you are loved less, you make others more important than you. You are measuring your own merit in comparison to another. Remind yourself that (1) Someone can always choose another without having it be a reflection on you, and (2) whether or not you are chosen by any significant other is not the way you validate your own se..
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Knowing that you'll always get some disapproval for everything you feel, think, say or do is the way out of the tunnel of despair. Once you expect it, you won't be inclined to hurt yourself with it, and you'll simultaneously stop equating the repudiation of an idea or a feeling with the repudiation of you.
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You may also believe that you must have a reason for doing something; otherwise what's the point of doing it? Balderdash! You can do anything you want just because you want to, and for no other reason. You don't need a reason for anything that you do. Looking for a reason for everything is the kind of thinking that keeps you from new and exciting experiences...This passion for reasons keeps you from opening up and growing. What freedom to k..
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Give up having to have a reason for everything you do. When someone asks you why, remember that you don't have to come up with a reasonable answer that will satisfy them. You can do what you decide just because you want to.
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Remind yourself that the fear of failure is very often the fear of someone else's disapproval or ridicule. If you let them have their own opinions, which have nothing to do with you, you can begin to evaluate your behavior in your own, rather than their terms. You'll come to see your abilities not as better or worse, but as simply different from others.
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All the great heroes of your life have taught you nothing. And they are no better than you, in any way. Politicians, actors, athletes, rock-stars, your boss, therapist, teacher, spouse, or whoever, are just skillful at what they do--nothing more.
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You are behaving as a fool if you look outside of you for an explanation of how you should feel or what you should do. Taking credit as well as responsibility for yourself is the first step to eliminating this erroneous zone. Be your own hero.
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