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The crucial point is: by changing ourselves, we change the world. As we become more loving on the inside, healing occurs on the outside. Much like the rising of the sea level lifts all ships, so the radiance of unconditional love within a human heart lifts all of life
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins
The more you really connect with people, the more you learn about yourself: what excites you, what drains you, what attracts you, and what intimidates you.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Consequently the man whose sole concern with the world is that it shall admire him is not likely to achieve his object. But even if he does, he will not be completely happy, since human instinct is never completely self-centered, and the narcissist is limiting himself artificially just as truly as is the man dominated by a sense of sin.
Bertrand Russell • The Conquest of Happiness
Now take another look at the people around you. Do they take on a new light in view of what we’ve just recognized? Each one of these human beings is seeking his own happiness – and he is doing it in a way that is uniquely his own. He seeks to live his life as he want it. He is not living for you – or for me – but for himself. But they are the keys
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In conclusion, if you are investing energy in growth and change out of love for yourself and others and out of the desire to express that love in beneficial ways, then not even a little effort goes to waste, as Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gītā. But if your attempts to change are based in veiled self-hatred, you might cause more harm to yourself an
... See moreChristopher D. Wallis • Near Enemies of the Truth: Avoid the Pitfalls of the Spiritual Life and Become Radically Free
It accords with a different sense of self, affirmed not by enclosing more and more of the world within the confines of me and mine, but by developing and deepening relationships with others.