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"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."
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"This is my life... my story... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
"But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant's grip - one's faculties rise in revolt - and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle."
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"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."
"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"
"To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them."
"Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes."
"None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting."
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