“As you become more powerful, you will begin to detach from the world because it is basically weak. Part of this detachment is your ability to withdraw from the mind-set and the feelings of society around you. The way that society controls you is that it implies that you are in some way responsible to it, or that at the very least you have a duty to it.

This, of course, is not true, and the God-Force does not ask you to support or not support anything. To accommodate this feeling, we tend to try to do what people want of us and have them like us. Once you go beyond worrying about whether people like you or not, then you can undercut their manipulation of you and establish a feeling of total independence. This is not a simple process, for remember, as a child you were programmed to seek approval by constantly doing what people wanted. Once you can go beyond that, the sky’s the limit.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Affirmations”

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“Human beings often look outside of themselves to other individuals and admire or idolize their marvelous abilities rather than looking within and searching for their own remarkable talents. I learned a while ago that I am no different from the people I admire and the people I derive inspiration from. I just need to discover my unique ability and apply it in my life. Rather than looking to the external world for inspiration, look within and begin to utilize the enormous amount of resources contained within you. Realize the great abilities that are living silently inside of you waiting for their chance to experience excellence in your life. Admire and inspire yourself rather than those outside of you.”

Richard A. Singer, in “Your Daily Walk With the Great Minds”

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“Everyone at some time or the other experiences feelings of what is known as insecurity. You feel insecure with the amount of money you have in the bank, or the amount of love you are getting from your friend or the type of educational background you have. Or you have insecurity feelings regarding your health or your age or your physical appearance.

If you were asked the question, “What is it that makes you feel insecure?” you would almost certainly give the wrong answer. You might say, “I don’t have enough of the love of a friend” or “I don’t have the kind of academic training I need,”  or some such thing. In other words, you would point to some outside condition not realizing that insecurity feelings are not generated by anything outside of you, but only by your emotional programming, by something you are telling yourself in your head.

If you change your program, your insecurity feelings would vanish in a second even though everything in the outside world remained exactly as it was before.”

Fr. Anthony DeMello, in “The Way to Love”

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“Surrendering to life doesn’t mean to remain passive. It means to take responsibility for how your life is and has been, and for how you would like to see yourself in the future. To improve the quality of lie and to live a more meaningful and fulfilling life, you need to educate yourself and find the sources of creativity within.

Life is always wiser and greater than our small ego-mind. When we surrender to what life brings, we can see and understand the hidden lessons and the new direction that life is pointing us in. By resisting and rejecting the guidance that life offers, we miss learning our lessons and stay in ignorance and suffering. When you accept and surrender to your own life, you also accept and surrender to other people’s lives instead of resenting, judging, and competing with them.”

Eliza Mada Dalian in “In Search of the Miraculous”

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“You make the rules in the game of life; you make your own choices. For each situation there are no fewer than three choices. You can take the high road, the middle road or the low road – the easy path, the more difficult path, or the most difficult path. Any of them will get you to your destination. And I would remind you that refusing to make a choice is also a choice. It is often the choice that allows others to exercise their free-will choice over you.”

Rich Work, in “God This is a Good Book”

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