Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.

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

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You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.

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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

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We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.

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

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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

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You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

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