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DROP BY DROP…

Actively asserting the responses that do NOT come naturally-love,
forgiveness, patience, compassion in the face of hatred-is the only
way to avoid gradually succumbing to evil…if we do try-again, little
by little, in the numberless decisions of everyday life-then any one
of us can become good, as a bucket is filled drop by drop.

=Eknath Easwaran

You should transfer your attention from failure to success, from
worry to calmness, from mental wanderings
to concentration, from restlessness to peace, and from peace to the
divine bliss within. When you attain this state of Self-realization
the purpose of your life will have been gloriously fulfilled.

- Paramahansa Yogananda, "The law of Success"

Resist manfully; one habit overcomes another.

-Thomas A Kempis

The world is made of rings. The hooks
are all yours. Make straight your hooks
and nothing can hold you. Give up your
addictions. There is nothing else to
give up. Stop your routine of acquisitiveness, your habit of looking
for results and the freedom of the universe is yours. Be effortless.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973

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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for
that determines our success or failure.
The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do
anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you
are.

-Norman Vincent Peale

Habits of thought are mental magnets that draw to you certain things,
people, and conditions. Weaken a
bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it,
without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert
your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it
becomes a dependable part of you.

- Paramahansa Yogananda, "The Law of Success"

Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever
is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is
any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about
these things…

- Christian, St. Paul, Philippians

He in whom prayer and love are real does not see dichotomy in things;
he does not separate the saint from the sinner and does not judge but
loves all equally, as God does, who makes the sun to shine and the
rain to fall on the just and unjust alike.

- The Way of a Pilgrim

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One need only float with the magnificent
current of Totality in the ecstasy of oneness with the cosmic flow of
events. What else can the dreamer do with his dream except passively
witness it without judgment?

- Ramesh S. Balsekar

"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1966

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There is no greater sin than desire,
No greater curse than discontent,
No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore
he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

- Lao-tzu

Tao Te Ching

Translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane

Vintage Books Edition, September 1972

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If you were accused of being a Christian, would there be enough
evidence to convict you?

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