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"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth."
"When you are angry, close your eyes, you will regain your inner peace."
"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
"The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors."
"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."
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"You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort."
"Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you've stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug out from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling His chosen ones, by making sure they always follow their appointed path to the end. If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on."
"But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for."
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