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No matter how simplified or complicated life gets, it can make us miserable or it can wake us up.
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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. . . it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.
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Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
There is no gain without struggle.
When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.