Living Loving and Learning

And another thing—don’t avoid negative states. Negative states can teach you a lot. Don’t avoid people who create negative states in you. We have a tendency to turn around and walk away, but they are going to require you to reevaluate yourself and see yourself in a new light.

Life isn’t an isolated phenomenon but it is part of the general experience, constantly influencing and being influenced by every new moment.

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose—and don’t let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to.) You are that combination so that you can do what it i

So what are we not? We are not our mental static. We are not our bodies. We are not our programming. We are not our education. We are not our present mind. We are not our physical selves. We are not our sensations. We are not our perceptions. We are not our power. We are not our present feelings. We are not our present responses. We are, in part, a

“Thinking five to six thoughts at once, we train to keep chronically tense. Everywhere we find training in tenseness. Nowhere do we find training in ease and happiness. Poor man, created to befriend all creatures, does not even befriend himself.”

I am beginning to believe that maybe the truly mentally healthy individual is the one who has the most alternatives, the most viable alternatives. A person who can say, “If this doesn’t happen, what else and what else and what else, is possible?”

“When you cease expecting, you have all things.” If you go around doing your thing without expectation, then you already have everything you need. If they do give you something in return, you take it with open arms. It should always come as a surprise.

forever because it will always be the greatest battle you will ever have to fight, and it’s the only battle worth fighting.

At every moment you choose yourself, but do you choose your self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you may built many ‘I s.’ But in only one of them is there congruence between the elector and the elected, only one which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial feelings and possibilities of being