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"No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer."
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"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."
Truth
"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
Change
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
People
"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
Being
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
Government
"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."
Change
"Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it."
Power
"CHOAM is business and business follows profits."
Business
"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."
Communication
"He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult."
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"For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves."
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Personal Development
"The best yardstick for our progress is not other people, but ourselves. Am I better than I was yesterday? This is the only question worth asking. As long as you go to bed at night a better practitioner than the one who woke up that morning, you have succeeded. Your worth should have nothing to do with how your progress stacks up relative to another."
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Personal Development
"Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue."
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Personal Development
"If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else's shadow, they might wilt."
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Personal Development
"You need to understand your potentials to transform it. look in to Yourself, upwards to God then outwards to your environ."
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Personal Development
"Accepting complete responsibility is the unsung character trait of those who find uncommon success, and failure to accept responsibility is a common trait of those who end up with a mediocre life."
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Personal Development
"When we assign ourselves the mission of changing others who show no want or need to change, it blocks our spirit-it drains us-and prevents us from attracting into our lives that which we need to grow."
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Personal Development
"The trip doesn't exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears, so long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will continue to harass and plague you wherever you wander on land or on sea. Does it surprise you that running away doesn't do you any good? The things you're running away from are with you all the time."
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Personal Development
"The farm is a base of operations"a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for reflection is an essential ingredient in self-development. I think a person has to be withdrawn into himself to gather inspiration so that he is somebody when he comes out again among folks"when he "comes to market' with himself. He learns that he's got to be almost wastefully alone."
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Personal Development
"Be aware of the power of self awareness."
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Personal Development
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