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"To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence."
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"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."

"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."

"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."

"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."

"The mind becomes much more beautiful, when man could see his own weaknesses."

"Be yourself, that is all there is."

"As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man."

"Are you like, a crazy person?I'm quite sure they will say so."
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"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without."

"What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone."

"Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life."

"People don't realize that now is all there ever is there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind."

"If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small."

"In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as "an optical illusion of consciousness."

"Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment."
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