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Self-mastery
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Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
~ Lao-tzu Quotes from The Tao te Ching
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
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Reshape yourself through the power of your will...
Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.
~ Krishna Quotes from The Bhagavad Gita
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It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Journey to Ixtlan
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One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.
~ Buddha Quotes from The Dhammapada
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Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
~ Mevlana Rumi Quotes from Rumi Daylight
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The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.
~ Mevlana Rumi Quotes from Rumi Daylight

