“Aloneness is a gift. A beautiful gift to the human soul. True and consistent satisfaction comes from the bond you form with yourself. Nobody else is a constant”
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“If your body, if your mind, if your emotions, if your energies are not functioning the way you want them to, then this is the worst kind of slavery, because somebody else decides what should happen within you. If somebody else decides what should happen around you, that itself you call as slavery. But if someone decides what should happen within you, is it not a more horrible way of being a slave? But please see, the whole world is in this slavery. The only consolation is everybody is like this.”
― Inner Management: In the Presence of the Master
― Inner Management: In the Presence of the Master
“The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.”
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“Nothing has ever been out of place in this existence. Things have been out of place in human societies.”
― Three Truths of Well Being: The Mind
― Three Truths of Well Being: The Mind
“It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.”
― Flotsam
― Flotsam
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