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"Sometimes the best solution is to stop trying to change people."
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"It isn't so much life's problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic."

"People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words."

"All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing."

"Don't participate or allow yourself to be dragged into other people's dramas, complaints, or gossip."

"I never have been involved in politics."

"Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth."

"Vitarags [the enlightened one] do not have a desire for giving or receiving charity. They are in the state of 'shuddh upyog' [pure awareness of pure soul]."

"Where there is kashay, they are all considered heaps of parigraha (worldly possessiveness); whether one is living in the Himalayas or in a cave. Where there is absence of kashays, there is absence of possessiveness; even if one is then living in a palace!"

"To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in 'Us' whatsoever!"

"Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good."
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"Committing to a goal does not always bring action, yet committing to an action will invariably bring you to your goal."

"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."
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