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“People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.”

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Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…

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“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you…

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To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That…

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When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

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On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you…

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You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the…

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“War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if…

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Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

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Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

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My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had…

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I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation…

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I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.

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When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed.

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Keeping up with everybody's expectation is soooo hard!

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I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize…

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“Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.”

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Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of…

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Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities.

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It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

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