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“Do not do that again," he said stiffly."Don't kiss me back then," I retorted.He stared at me for what seemed like forever. "I don't give 'Zen lessons' to hear myself talk. I don't give them because...”
“those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control”
“You can't make me do nothing but die!”
“You can only control what you know, what you don’t know, will control YOU!”
“A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.”
“Let them see that you trust them & let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions.Do that & they will commit their lives to you. Bully the, control them out of fear or malice or just f...”
“No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved...”
“I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.”
“But now here I am: No money. No place to stay. It should be my worst nightmare. But I don't care. It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.”
“Law without reason is criminal.”
“Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.”
“Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?”
“Stop worrying about what you cannot control. It’s a total waste of your energy, energy that could otherwise be used to help you focus on what you can influence. I spend large parts of my coaching s...”
“Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should no...”
“You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we ‘say’, it is ‘egoism’. The whole world is in order [in control].”
“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to co...”
“Sometimes the greatest pain, is the one we think we can’t control.”
“Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.”
“A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue, and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind.”
“The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.”
