 The stress and strain of life come from the arrogance and ignorance of the egotistsNever attempt to clear up a bothersome situation while you are upset about it. Let it alone until the funny side of it appearsAffection cannot win without understanding. Life is greater than anyone's vision, deeper than all opinion. To penetrate its mystery is essential. Insight requires a conjunction with reality. Do not deny yourself for a purpose below your possibilities If your whole relation to life is through other people, it is threatened by all the weakness of human nature. If your primary relation is social, every trend of the group, each depression, all that happens to people, will overpower you. Most everyone's thinking is colored by a mass of stupidity gathered from the unthinking influence of other people. Separate all of your own carefully thought-out ideas about a situation from the nonsense of othersDon't be consumed by money to the point where the beauties of nature, the mysteries of art, the majesties of music, are neglectedBottled up in a destructive setting, bound by duty to a false responsibility, the soul rages at its imprisonment.You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.One may receive love and know the depth of intense emotion. One may constrict its flow and exist at half measure. One may misuse its power, distorting it into lust and predatory desire. But love is not anyone's possession. It comes into you or goes out of you much in the way life is received or disappears. Again and again man has set himself above matters of nature, only to discover how puny he is in the face of the forces of life. It is not how you or I would be done by that matters, but what each must do in obedience to the will of life, and the will of God You get what you want only by knowing what you want. Move up your wants as fast as circumstance yields. What you can have at any particular moment is a relative matter. It depends upon your concentration, insight, skill, and persistence in the face of a constantly changing situation "The problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them"A. Einstein Daring. Dare to live while life is passing; you'll never really live otherwise. Set a limit on what you are willing to bear. Call this your adjustment margin, your wall of personality. "They shall not pass" beyond that line, no matter who or what they are. Regardless of the trial, the duty, the burden; drop it or them when they attempt to intrude upon your spirit The greatest need of every man is an inner purpose, a belief or endeavor he carries about with him in his heart. This establishes a sanctum in the center of consciousness in which he returns for strength "Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield upon which your reason & your judgement wage war against your passion & your appetite." K. Gibran
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