Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.

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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

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You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

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Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

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You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.

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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

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