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Only by accepting reality can we work with the flow of life as it passes by and create a better world.
“If you want to see how much you cling to the outside world in order to avoid drowning inside, just see what happens when the world doesn’t unfold the way you expect. What happens when someone very close to you behaves in a way that doesn’t align with your model? Your mind and heart catch fire. This happens even if the person hasn’t actually done anything.”
― Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
― Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
“The stream of knowledge,” Sir James Jeans writes in The Mysterious Universe,8 “is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“Everything we expect, good or bad, conscious or unconscious, we are helping to bring into being. Our prayer is an energy or power that emanates out from us in all directions.”
― The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight
― The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight
“All moments in the universe are simply moments in the universe; you are the one bringing your personal preferences into these impersonal moments and making them seem personal.”
― Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
― Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
“In essence, you are causing yourself to be unhappy, then you’re going outside and demanding that the world somehow make you happy. The world cannot make you happy while you’re inside making yourself unhappy. It’s that simple.”
― Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
― Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
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