You are seeking something which is here — right here — inside yourself. You are not seeking something which is alien to you, but rather your own inmost nature, your essence.

Paul Brunton, Discover Yourself

Thoughts for the Week:

* Visualize and imagine what you desire to experience.

* Success: You feel good not because the world is right, but your world is right because you feel good.

* We must erase first. Then, we write with clear wisdom. (Picture yourself erasing a mental blackboard).

* Self-Awareness: We must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are.

* Identification: We lose our thoughts in these things in an attempt to feel secure:

* Person / Place / Career / Hobby / Personal Viewpoints

* We want to cling to something that seems permanent.

* Identification with excitement is always followed by an unhappy reaction.

* It is strange how human beings seldom inspect the ideas which produce the kind of life they have.

* The products of our processes.

* You are not your collected self-descriptions… when a memorized image of yourself does not interfere with right now, right now is peace and liberty.

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