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The fourth step: Acknowledge how we always want someone else to change so that we will feel good. But has it ever struck you that even if your wife changes or your husband changes, what does that do to you? You’re just as vulnerable as before; you’re just as idiotic as before; you’re just as asleep as before. You are the one who needs to change.
Anthony de Mello • A Year with Anthony De Mello: Waking Up Week by Week
Thoughts are like the breeze or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. They appear like that, and through inquiry we can make friends with them. Would you argue with a raindrop? Raindrops aren’t personal, and neither are thoughts. Once a painful concept is met with understanding, the next time it appears, you may find it interesting.
... See moreByron Katie • Loving What Is, Revised Edition: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life; The Revolutionary Process Called "The Work
Your true happiness happens when you discover that no one other than yourself is responsible for the way you feel. If you believe that others are responsible for the way you feel, you are in true bondage, because you cannot control how they behave or how they feel.
Esther Hicks • The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships
The possibility of such a transformation has been the central message of the great wisdom teachings of humankind.