Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.

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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

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No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

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To change what you get you must change who you are.

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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.

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