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52 Quotes to live by

ZETT WHY

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ZETT WHY 52 Quotes to live by

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Contents

1st Quote: Knowing that not knowing is good equals halfway to happiness... .......................................... 9

2nd Quote: Water is the most yielding substance, but no one has defeated it yet... ............................... 11

3rd Quote: Be no one, if you want to stand high... ..................................................................................... 14

4th Quote: Your consciousness – witness and judge at the same time... ................................................... 16

5th Quote: Love the person you see, not who you would like to... ............................................................. 18

6th Quote: Eyes should see, ears should hear, and the mind should keep silent... .................................. 21

7th Quote: Face death every evening, so that you can be reborn in the morning... ................................ 22

8th Quote: Suffering and happiness are always near. Which will you choose? ........................................ 25

9th Quote: Only by not achieving can you achieve... ................................................................................. 26

10th Quote: Sunlight doesn't wait for a compliment, water doesn’t refresh for fame... ......................... 27

11th Quote: Some, going the Way, don't leave home. Others who left home, don't show up on the Way at all... ......................................................................................................................................................... 28

12th Quote: Your enemy is your best friend... ........................................................................................... 30

13th Quote: The real joy is along the Way, not at the end of it... ............................................................. 32

14th Quote: Everyone's suffering – yesterday or tomorrow... ................................................................... 33

15th Quote: Gold only glints in shit... ........................................................................................................ 35

16th Quote: Everything that belongs to you, comes easily and with joy... ................................................ 36

17th Quote: You only see yourself everywhere... ....................................................................................... 38

18th Quote: When blaming others, look in the mirror... ........................................................................... 40

19th Quote: In advising another person, you only burden him with troubles... ....................................... 42

20th Quote: Satisfy the horse, and the rider will also be satisfied... ......................................................... 44

21st Quote : Throw off what's not yours, and you will find the joy of life... ............................................... 46

22nd Quote: Don't overestimate yourself, and you won't be angry at anything... ................................... 48

23rd Quote: Want to be happy? Be happy! ................................................................................................ 50

24th Quote: Emotions are your best advisors... ......................................................................................... 52

25th Quote: Excellence of life is in a feeling of measure! .......................................................................... 54

26th Quote: Only a person who has given everything away has nothing to lose..................................... 56

27th Quote: Death is the best lawyer... ..................................................................................................... 57

28th Quote: Learn to love yourself, so you can love the world .................................................................. 59


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29th Quote: The entire future is in the present... ....................................................................................... 61

30th Quote: Don't make excuses – people are still always dissatisfied... ................................................... 62

31st Quote: If you want to change the world - begin with yourself... ........................................................ 63

32nd Quote: Your desires and reality are separated by an abyss... ........................................................... 64

33rd Quote: Space is limited by infinity, while believing has no limits... .................................................... 65

34th Quote: The most important rule is to have no rules... ........................................................................ 67

35th Quote: Form symbolizes the past... .................................................................................................... 68

36th Quote: You can desire something, or you can just do it... .................................................................. 69

37th Quote: When you realize that you have something – you will lose it at once... ................................ 70

38th Quote: Learn to feel the limit – then you will avoid suffering... ......................................................... 71

39th Quote: „He who defends the humiliated, only heightens himself...“ ................................................ 72

40th Quote: Only at the highest point of a conflict will you realize what a fool you are... ....................... 74

41st Quote: The house is empty, but only because of this can you live there... ....................................... 75

42nd Quote: A dream or reality – only you exist... ..................................................................................... 76

43rd Quote: You are blessed while having an illusion, and condemned without it... ................................. 78

44th Quote: Find true stillness, anything else doesn't matter... ................................................................ 80

45th Quote: Things you look for, don't really exist... ................................................................................. 82

46th Quote: The one seeking truth should realize that it's everywhere... ................................................. 83

47th Quote: Don't blame life, and everything will be a miracle... ............................................................. 85

48th Quote: A borrowed jacket never suits you......................................................................................... 86

49th Quote: Illness is an opportunity for you... ......................................................................................... 87

50th Quote: Stop dreaming and begin living... .......................................................................................... 88

51st Quote: Know without words... ........................................................................................................... 89

52nd Quote: The only obstacle along the Way is You... ............................................................................ 90

Final word ................................................................................................................................................... 93


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Introduction

A problem arises

All science refers to logic and the mind. The domination of intellect is reflected in our educational system, too. This dominant structure can destroy any trace of personality. By killing personal expression in such a way, teachers can turn kids into robots. Parents also play an active role in all of this. Adults dictate: “You must go to school... you must listen to your teachers... if it's written in a book, it's absolutely true... No one has ever died from learning... I have achieved all this only because of science...” In school we are taught grammar, mathematics, and many other disciplines. It can all seem very nice and valuable from a distance. But in fact and in practice, we only use a tiny part of our entire mind and experience. As we learn to use more of it, we can become human beings with a wider knowledge of other galaxies than ourselves...

Only after we have grown up do we begin to realize that life consists not only of physics or mathematics, but also of Nature’s Rules, which have a huge effect on our daily routine. We learn the operating principles of these rules by intuition. Same as at school, same as in life – some go further, some do not. But imagine what life would be like, if higher mathematics could be exchanged for a greater understanding of Nature’s Rules. I am not talking about physics or chemistry – I instead have in mind a more complete human being with all his mental facilities, physical condition, intercommunication, and knowledge of all the rules which have an impact on this. Enough for a search of the galaxy– it's time to find Yourself!

The guiding law of life!

I always have been unsatisfied with the truths taught at school. None of the teachers could give me answers to difficult questions like - “What is the meaning of life?”, “Who am I?”, etc. Later on, I started to gain a degree from the university of life. All my life I have lived and worked among people, and I have not been contented with the superficial answers I have heard – I have always looked for a more primary source, and tried to understand the real cause of the connection between things and relationships.

My studies still continue. When looking back at my life, a feeling that they will never end comes over me. Truths that were realized just yesterday are being denied today and realized anew. Thoughts and ideas which were only beautiful words not long ago, are my personal qualities today. Despite the things I have found on my Way, each day I feel like a beginner. Such an attitude helps me to keep learning. I have met many teachers in my


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life. Some of them were pseudo-teachers, some – real pearls of wisdom, who left a deep impression on me. In observing them, their teaching systems, and in analyzing results, I came to one conclusion – despite our nationality, race or religion, all of us are under a single guiding law.

This guiding law can be called Satisfaction in our consciousness. It's the constant and main engine ruling all our life processes. Whatever our situation in society or daily routine may be, it should be evaluated through this feeling at first. When we face a positive life situation, we meet life like a flower in spring meets the eye of the sun. An endless feeling of satisfaction appears in our consciousness... This feeling is an indicator, determining many of our choices.

Satisfaction in consciousness verifies that a person’s external ego and their internal ego accept a situation, and there is no conflict between their outside and inside world. When a positive life situation occurs along the Way, and a person’s consciousness becomes filled with a feeling of satisfaction, all things become automatic. All moral and religious teachings, such as “be good” and “love your neighbor”, become meaningless. A person who experiences a smile from destiny, or faces a positive life situation, doesn't need to be told that he should respect elder people and women, take compassion on unfortunates or other things like that. These things just seem normal to him, and the most important point is that he realizes it as a natural thing, not truths that have been told to him by someone else.

About the book

Due to many objective and subjective reasons, we are often forced to go in directions which wouldn't be our choice under other conditions. We usually follow the goals imposed by society, friends, or just egoism created by ourselves. The more intellectual we become, the less often we feel satisfaction in our consciousness. We postpone moments of happiness to particular points in time, and believe that we will be happy when we achieve them. But right after having achieved them, we set new goals, and go on to the next goal. This race has no end.

How can you stop a race which has no meaning? How is it possible to find joy in simple things? How can you learn not to hurt yourself in your communication with others? What do Christianity, Buddhism, and other movements really say? Here in this book you will find answers to these and many other questions.

This book is written in a Japanese style. Each part starts by a Quote called a Way. All the ways put together would fit on only two pages, but civilization uses many words to explain everything nowadays, and the whole meaning wouldn't be clear to a westerner if


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suggested in only a few brief statements. Due to this reason, a detailed explanation detailing what the author has in mind has been added to each Way.

Reading the book can be done in two ways. The first is traditional – reading it from the beginning till the end. But I strongly recommend devoting yourself to the moment. Think about a problem that you are worried about, and choose any part of the book by chance – let the right Way offer an answer to you. 52 Ways, guiding you to Satisfaction in consciousness, are waiting. Many call it Happiness...

Before starting

When dealing with satisfaction in consciousness, you can't cheat yourself. The feeling of pleasure can't be created – it comes when a person’s internal situation (body and mind), is in harmony with their external (social position and circumstances) situation. The book will tell you how to match these, and what the main factors are which can cause conflicts and problems. I have just mentioned the word “happiness”, but the things I write about can't be labeled in such a manner. The definition of Happiness can be easily realized by each one of you. It can even be felt physically. It is Satisfaction in consciousness.

Pleasure in consciousness is all that we need. It's a guiding star, showing us whether we are on the right Way, or not. Alienation from pleasure is called Suffering. Pleasure seeking (desire) is called Hope. The appearance of a pleasurable moment - Happiness. Permanence in being in a condition of pleasure is called Love. A condition of pleasure which involves all your entity is called Nirvana. People who are able to stay in a condition of overpowering pleasure in consciousness all the time, call it the Supreme Truth. Here is all that is Human...

Enjoy your reading!

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1st Quote

Knowing that not knowing is good equals halfway to happiness...

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Information paradox

Nowadays, every person can be called a walking library. While Christian tradition says that God's ways are higher, we can make an observation – intellectual ways are limitless. Our developing civilization and the growing amount of information available show that intellect is in a golden age. But it hasn't brought happiness to people, even with its technological progress. It's related to all the aspects of our lives, especially for families.

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In keeping with the topic on intellect and its impact on our lives, we should return back to the Introduction – the more unhappy a person is, the higher their intellect. Take a look around and observe your surroundings. How many love songs have been written? Unfortunately, almost all of them state an accepted fact – star-crossed love. Remember your own love. Could you have said at that time - “I'm in love!”? Probably not, because if you could have, your feelings would have been coming from your external perceptions and the satisfaction of egoism. That’s why a lover is silent and a saint is silent – they own a quality, but don't realize it. It's intellect that realizes things and gives them values. After all, what can you say when you are full of emotion in the Here and Now, and there's no need for any talk?

Intellect chains everything up. It generates emotions such as Egotism, Hatred and so on. Even love is mixed together with the emotions created by the intellect. You can often

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notice that that the one who confesses love to you is expecting the same answer, because their intellect insists on it, wanting guarantees. Now, is such a love what the scriptures have in mind? Absolutely not. When egotistic love doesn't get a response, the next step is hatred.

Intellectual extremism



Only this will help you become reborn, and only this will let you find joy in simple things. Only this way leads to happiness...



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2nd Quote

Water is the most yielding substance, but no one has defeated it yet...

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Being yielding is an advantage

Bowing to something is in one or another way mentioned by many religions. One of the well-known lessons taught by Christ says - “if someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other side to him”. But show me a Christian, faithfully following such a precept. The interpretation of being yielding is strained in our society. Being yielding is actually not self-effacement or humility in the name of gaining some points in the uncertain kingdom of God. Devotees understand it like the wordless acceptance of injustice, unconcern, and the common problems of mankind. Christians took a formula of responding to an aggressor without violence, and are trying to go along the way of life by bowing in an easy manner, not getting on anybody else’s road, and by praying. Still, try stepping onto their path, and their imaginary bowing will disappear. However, this belongs to another topic. Moreover, church teachers and wise people in this case talk about having a special quality. This is a quality which helps one to survive and win without fighting.

Water doesn't fight, but it always wins



Egoism is the greatest enemy to bowing



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Easy bowing should become a quality of every person. Of course, egoism and conventionality block this. Let's do an experiment to illustrate this. When you face a conflict situation, try to be yielding instead of your usual reaction and arguing. I assure you that the results will surprise you. The most difficult thing in a conflict situation is not losing your “I”, and being able to observe the situation itself in an objective manner.



What will you choose?

It is said that the older people get, the wiser they become. Observe your elders – the majority of them will consider being yielding a quality. Only after going along a great distance in life, in which we experience continual losing, humiliation, and absolute failure of self-confidence, do we begin to realize that being yielding is more than desperate prostration.



I will reveal one more secret to you – when looking at a group of people communicating, you should notice that each one is basically talking to himself. He who can hear his friend, is the winner in such a situation. With the intention of achieving our goal, we must reduce our own significance to zero. After that, you should do everything you can to strengthen the significance of others. When you follow this principle, people will




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notice that you don't present any risk to them. As a consequence, they will become more honest with you. Paradoxically, your significance in their eyes will only grow...


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3rd Quote

Be no one, if you want to stand high...

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The concept of egoism

When a person learns to think and analyze, he starts choosing. From the choosing principle, egoism is born – the more people seek it, the more expensive a thing or a position is. It is said that the greatest victory is to conquer your own egoism. So, let's find out what it means at first.

Wikipedia says: “Egocentrism is a personality trait which has the characteristic of regarding oneself and one's own opinions or interests as the most important or valid.” To put it simply, it's an unlimited desire to feel pleasure by using everything that is around us, due to self-interest. Egoism reaches its peak of satisfaction when its selfish stimulus helps us to achieve what other people can't.

The development of egoism

The development of egoism can be watched in parallel with the evolution of human beings. At first it was minimal – related to the provision of food and family growth. Its roots are instincts. Look at children, and you will the see the purest egoism. Because their intellect is not yet developed, they only follow instincts.





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When will we stop?



How much do you really need?

Looking at it from one side, it may seem that the world is headed straight to self-destruction, and that there are no real enemies – other than ourselves - we are the only ones harming ourselves.

It also seems that our egoism has reached its peak. The world and its resources are too small for our scope. We should all realize that by using cars we are polluting the air and destroying the environment around us. But how many people, in understanding this, have deliberately stopped using their cars? A second wave of crises goes through the world. Pick any one of these crises – each one is a fruit of egoism. We can't use the world for the constant satisfaction of our desires any more.

A reverse process is running – the more we try to satisfy our egoism, the more we suffer. Something which was once an engine of development has started to harm itself by going too far. There is only one way to escape – by throwing off egoism - and if we don’t do it ourselves, we will be forced into self-destruction.

Psychologically, egoism is relevant. It gives us food. But a problem arises when the limit of our needs is turned away from its proper path – the limit of how much we really need. All of us want to be happy. Whatever this amount of happiness may be, whether 100 grams or 1 kilo – it's the same happiness. Uncountable.



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4th Quote

Your consciousness – witness and judge at the same time...

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What is consciousness?



Consciousness as a witness

One of the biggest problems occurs when contradictions between different world cognition spheres fight within a person. We can observe a woman suffering from contradictions very easily. For instance, she decides to marry a rich man. Her mind says YES, because it ensures financial security, whereas her heart or emotional intelligence says NO, and we have finally arrived at a contradiction. That is how tension in the mind is created, and it's all because the intellect’s intellectual logic has a conflict with feelings. Consciousness in this case acts only as an observer, but the internal conflict, especially if it's related to feelings, sends a signal of dissatisfaction to it.



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So, when will you start treating yourself better? Then everything will go forward by itself, as if without any effort. You may ask – how can this be achieved? The answer is simple – stop lying to yourself, and make peace between all the parts of your personality. When there are no contradictions anymore among your emotions and mind in your life, peace and balance of mind will rule. Maybe you'll have to refuse something or push something away, but ask yourself – how much would you give for inner peace? I think that it replaces any amount of money, and it is the main goal of many people.

Consciousness as a judge

Inner peace will bring you one more thing. You will notice success entering your daily routine. People around you will also see your internal changes. Your character and reactions to the environment will change, too. Each “compromise” between your internal parts creates a conflict or contradiction. If you do nothing, it starts to get bigger. It's like a seed, which grows and evolves. You can ignore it, but only till a particular limit. When it gets to critical mass, it explodes.






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5th Quote

Love the person you see, not who you would like to...

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How we understand love

We understand love in a twofold manner. The first way is limitless and unconditional love of all, as set out in the scriptures. The second way is personal love, when one person loves another. I will not mention love of all in this part of the book. Here, I'm going to talk about the aspects of personal love. It can be recognized according to several of its main features. At first, you may observe that personal love is diluted with a sufficient dose of egoism. If he loves her, she must love him, and vice versa. Lacking this response in personal love is the straightest path towards suffering. Each lover tries untiringly to adjust the object of his love to himself. That's another quality and evil. The main reason for all the conflicts between couples is the Lover Illusion.

Lover illusion



Love to the parts

There are only separate romanticized parts of a lover in your head, not an entire person. It's just a phantom who is almost not related to the original. After creating this phantom, you quickly notice that your lover may not be fulfilling all your expectations.



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Because you “know” how they should behave in one or another situation. This is the start of conflicts in your relationship. Even worse – you begin to try to adjust the real person to match the phantom by all means. By the way, this is another feature of personal love – extortion. Extortion of someone who you think you love. The worst of it is that you do it from the heart, by lying to yourself and harming this close person. If the real person loves you enough, they can think that something is truly wrong, and start trying to change in line with your picture of them. But then the real person risks losing what they had in the beginning, plus the phantom perception of them in your head.

Egoism in love



Egoism basically works on a simple principle: I do something for you – you do something for me. But actually, egoism works a little bit differently. You do something for me, and then I will think about it, because the most important thing is what it means to me. The worst of it is that egoism uses love as a means of blackmail. Very often you will see a situation where one partner tries to correct the other partner in order to match the phantom by blackmailing them with feelings. These observations apply to both partners. You will know the size and differences of your phantom through the number of conflicts evoked by you yourself.

Destroy the phantom

A piece of advice for you – try to know your lover as you did from the start. Remember conflict situations, and look at them from your lover's side. Let go of any egoistic claims to your partner. You will be surprised at how many conflicts would not have happened at all, and you will see that the original and the phantom you created are two different people.



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Try to forget your ‘I’ in a relationship, and pay more attention to your partner. Remember that our bodies consist of many cells. A healthy cell gives 70% of its energy to the organism, and keeps just 30% for itself. When a cell takes 70% of the energy, we call it a cancer cell. Now, try to apply this formula to your relationship...


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6th Quote

Eyes should see, ears should hear, and the mind should keep silent...

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A story of a hermit



Seeing the world Here and Now






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7th Quote

Face death every evening, so that you can be reborn in the morning...

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Fatigue – the consequence of civilization?

Look at modern man – feeling tired has almost become a fashion. It's like an official statement that shows you are normal, like a sign that proves that you follow an insane rhythm in life step by step. Modern people, working from dawn till dusk in being relevant to all, feel very tired and complain about fatigue. A shroud of fatigue like a dense mist covers and lies on more and more people in the world. People are trying to escape from the rat race and blindly following the illusion that a big amount of money means happiness. We'll talk about this incorrect illusion in other parts of the book. Now let's pay attention to fatigue and its real consequences. Doctors have even developed a new term for this phenomenon – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A survey of general practitioners shows that as much as 55% of their patients complain about this. Naturally, a question arises – why do we get so tired and from what?

Causes of fatigue



Your mind is never on holiday



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Observe yourself in the evening before falling asleep – what a sea of unfinished tasks and thoughts live in your head. If due to this hive of thoughts, caused by circumstances, you fall asleep in a troubled state of mind, it will lead to a troubled night of sleep. Naturally, a person feels tired after not getting enough sleep. This has no end – we're going around and around like dogs chasing our tails.



Ways of solving the problem of constant fatigue

Psychological tiredness causes constant stress. The most popular way of solving an internal conflict is to set it aside consciously or unconsciously. Because we don’t know what our behavior should be, we try to put the problem far away from us as an irrelevant thing. Sometimes we start to drink. It helps us forget for a time, but later it comes back with double force. The problem is not solved yet, and the body now has a hangover. Attempting to hide internal confusion requires a lot of energy. Even if you think you have managed to forget one or another problem, fatigue can be a symptom showing that that skeleton in your closet hasn't come out into the light of day yet. You will have to work on it, or it will come out by itself, and this usually happens in a disturbing fashion.

There is another way, actually – to lay all the problems on a table, trying to consciously recognize which of them are yours, and which have been given to you by other people. Think about how you can solve the ones that belong to you, and how to throw out the ones belonging to others while keeping your conscience clean. Before analyzing these collected problems, put egoism off to the side. It's one of the main creators of tension in our mind. If you think that you really need a new house – be honest with yourself. If it's only an attempt to show off or impress the neighbors – is it worth it? Is it worth your effort to spend borrowed money for things you don't need, especially when using such “help” for impressing people you don't like? I purposely wrote “borrowed” - if you use your own money, there won't be any tension.

Every evening before falling asleep, try to let go of everything that stresses you and gain some balance in your mind. Let go from the heart. Remember that you can't change



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anything at this moment. You only harm yourself by worrying. It doesn't help in solving problems, because the tension won’t let you see all the choices.

So when going to sleep every evening, let it all go – like it would be your last day on Earth. Leave the problem solving for your unconscious internal mind. It knows all the answers, but you will have to trust it, and ask it questions without mental tension. Many different cultures have a saying - “morning is wiser than evening”. Only a clean mind can be reborn every morning. Develop the art of letting go, and you won't meet any obstacles on your Way.


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8th Quote

Suffering and happiness are always near. Which will you choose?

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9th Quote

Only by not achieving can you achieve...

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The ability to choose is a cause of tension

As we grow up and develop, we learn to choose. We begin to differentiate what is good and what is bad. After learning to choose, we only seek out the particular things in life that we want, like balance of mind, comfort, and guarantees. Still, it doesn't seem to matter how much we achieve, because we always think that there is no limit to it. That is human. In seeking what we want, we experience discomfort, irritation, or other negative emotions. Even in a moment of happiness, we put it aside, because we imagine that it will be worse in the future. So we rely on past experience. The worst of it is that our personal failures don’t only affect us. When we don't do well, we complain to others. When we see others doing well, we warn them that it can't last forever. In this manner, our personal tension becomes social.

The negative side of the mechanism of choice





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10th Quote

Sunlight doesn't wait for a compliment, water doesn’t refresh for fame...

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11th Quote

Some, going the Way, don't leave home. Others who left home, don't show up on the Way at all...

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Give value to life

Every new day in our lives is equal to rebirth. Unfortunately, we only realize this at the funeral of a close person – after seeing that yesterday was the last day for someone. Each time we wake up, we have the possibility to start a new life, and in essence, change something. Actually, every day is a gift of great value. It is a benchmark, from where we can initiate a lot of change. Everything is in our hands, but how often do we postpone our personal development to a brighter tomorrow or wait for special circumstances, which may provide us with the ability to correct the situation? As Oriental wisdom says, “the road of ten thousand miles starts from the first step”. The first step is the most difficult to take.

Start changing from inside





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Repetition – the engine of change



Does the current situation satisfy you?



Find your own Way

In the end – one more reminder. Remember that alone by themselves, material values and comfort won't make you feel well. A Chinese proverb says - “you can buy a bed, but you can't buy good sleep”. When reaching for material well-being, think about whether it is really yours, and if it is really what you want. It's difficult to find out what is really yours, and what is being imposed on you by society. But, you will come to understand the real values when you separate these two things. After realizing your true values, you will see your own Way, and after taking the first step, no one will be able to stop you anymore. In this world, there is nothing stronger than a person going his own Way, knowing what he truly wants. He doesn't face any obstacles...




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12th Quote

Your enemy is your best friend...

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A tree only grows surrounded by other trees

A long time ago in a faraway tropical forest, two tribes lived. They were fighting with each other constantly. One day, the chief of one tribe, who was its youngest person, thought of a clever plan about how to totally defeat the opposite tribe. The idea was simple – sneak up around the opposite tribe and set fire to their village from all sides. The plan succeeded, and one of the tribes totally destroyed the other. So the winner celebrated with a victory dance around a fire. Unfortunately, after a short time the tribe started to die off. Internal conflicts and disunity came into power, although looking from one side, there wasn't any outside danger anymore. The chief had changed the most. He had dimmed and lost any big interest in the world. The tribe slowly declined. The young chief didn't understand that by destroying the other tribe, he had actually killed his own.





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Heaven loses its meaning without Hell



An obstacle is your best teacher!

It's a paradox that after achieving a goal, we lose everything at once. Maybe not the things we worked for, but the things which truly stimulated us in doing this. Imagine for a second that you have the ability to do absolutely nothing. How long could you stay in such a position? A person has to move and develop in some way. While moving, sooner or later he faces obstacles. Whether you see an obstacle in your path depends on your inner potential. What may be an extreme situation for one person happens daily to another. You can choose to knock down the obstacles with your head and hope that they will finally go away, but how many people have died in such a way?



So when you hear about a problem, do something unusual – feel pleasure. Let this be a stimulus to move forward and achieve. There's no other way except whining and feeling sorry for yourself. Plus, if you have already achieved everything and lost what used to give you joy – Let it go, and start from anew. After all, you already know that you can. You already know that the joy is along the Way, not at its end...




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13th Quote

The real joy is along the Way, not at the end of it...

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14th Quote

Everyone's suffering – yesterday or tomorrow...

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Competition encourages a race

People are often in a constant rush, and are rarely satisfied with their current situation. Real moments of joy and blessings are usually postponed to the future or remembered from the past. Even present day achievements are valued and analyzed by comparing them to those of other people. This creates the feeling of being in a race - a race that has no end. In today’s modern world the ability to be the best or the strongest is preferred to only being good or strong. Competition is encouraged everywhere, and the race is based on an intellectually created hierarchy principle. The higher the position is, the more applicants. Go watch any Hollywood movie. There you will find a superhero, sweeping everything away from the ground by the power implementing his truth.



Everything that belongs to you comes easily and with joy

Some psychology experts say that our constant striving and looking for something to achieve comes from our instincts for growth, but this assumption can definitely be criticized. For instance, the world’s best sportsmen get huge salaries, although there's already no more space for their development. One more popular reason for competition is the desire to save self-esteem, and here it's worth mentioning that self-esteem and conceit have one and the same meaning. Many people experience a vacuum of values, so



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the stability and exaltation of self-esteem can only be earned by conquering others. This situation is even worse when we talk about a person whose feeling of self-worth is not related to him. His self-esteem is directly proportional to his position or status within society.



Your future starts Here and Now






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15th Quote

Gold only glints in shit...

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16th Quote

Everything that belongs to you, comes easily and with joy...

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Tension generates violence

A person’s life is hard enough when their consciousness is shaded with goals. While we don't achieve, we still have a possibility. After achievement we also have a possibility. Once having achieved something, we shrivel up more and more. It pollutes our consciousness. Problems can’t be solved if we only increase our speed and effort. Jumping to uncertainty requires us to throw away ourselves and all that we know. More than one nation and people have fallen from trying to increase their rate of achievement.



Everything that belongs to you, comes easily and with joy. Other things probably don't belong to you. When achieving things with violence, you only harm yourself.



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Inner potential and desires



Which desire is yours?

The biggest problem is that when we think we want something, it's often difficult to differentiate which desires are ours, and which are imposed by society and our environment. It's very hard to separate desires created by egoism.






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17th Quote

You only see yourself everywhere...

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When talking to another person, you are actually talking to yourself

An idyllic picture. Two people meet, talk to each other, and separate in a friendly manner. You may say – what's so special here? But I suggest that you look at this situation a bit closer. If you are unbiased and fair enough, you will notice an interesting thing. When talking to other person, we are actually talking to ourselves.



Every person has unique personal experience. What seems dangerous to one person can be a normal daily routine for another, and vice versa. When talking, people share their experience and exchange opinions. On principle, during communication with an unknown person, a scanning process is working. The process is soft enough up to a particular limit – till all the parameters synchronize. When the parameters totally synchronize, we say that the person is good, and seek friendship with them. A conflict situation appears when one or the other’s internal limit for achieved possibility is reached or exceeded.



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We see ourselves everywhere



How can this situation be changed?

Here a question arises – how is it possible to learn to see a situation from the other side, objectively, and get rid of stereotypes which don't allow anything new? So we end up with kind of a closed circle. From one side it seems safe, but looking at it from a development and possibility point of view, it appears to be in stagnation.



Oriental wisdom says – you can't wade through the same river twice. Some time has passed – the river has changed, and you have also changed...




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18th Quote

When blaming others, look in the mirror...

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The main cause of stress

Many of you will admit that the main cause of our diseases and mental disorders is stress, usually arising from communication with other people. Relationships or interpersonal communication psychology between people is one of the most popular topics in mass media. Family life and professional relations are talked about while considering their various aspects. A lot of advice is given which is denied the next month, and new advice is offered.



How many grievances and how much despair does a person experience when he doesn't receive something he desires? Typically, contempt is a self-defense reaction, along with alienation and misunderstanding. Grievances stay with us for a long time, eroding us from within. Still, it seems that we need to do so little – to change our attitude, and the situation would change. Instead of harming ourselves, we can find joy in communication. A consequence of this would be a reduced level of stress. After reducing the level of stress, diseases and psychological blocks will disappear.



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By saying one thing, we have others in mind



Conflict is the best communication teacher

Many interesting things happen when we don't agree with another person's opinion. We can see two possibilities in a conflict situation. The first – I am angry and despise my opponent. The second – I understand what a fool I am, and try to listen to his opinion closely. If you are practicing the first communication option, it looks like you are a loner with limited amount of friends. With the second option, you are welcome in any company, and surrounded by many friends.



The biggest secret leading to successful communication is reducing your conceit to a minimum, and exalting the conceit of other people. All people want is to be significant in the eyes of others. When you throw off your conceit, and work on exalting the significance of other people, you will rid yourself of all your enemies. People will want to communicate with you kindly, because they won't see you as a competitor. The most paradoxical thing is that your significance in others' eyes will only rise.




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19th Quote

In advising another person, you only burden him with troubles...

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The natural desire to help others

One of the natural human qualities is helping others, and it's probably something without which it would be difficult to survive in a community. It looks like the desire to help others is already programmed in our genes.

Scientists once did an experiment, in which eighteen-month-old babies participated. The experiment showed that when a baby sees an adult not directly related to him, whose hands are full and who needs help in lifting something, he reacts almost at once. It looks like helpful behavior is instinctive because it appears very early, even before parents start teaching politeness. I believe that helping others is natural and a good thing. In this part of the book I would like to talk more about help, which we try to give others in times of emergency, failure, or psychological conflict.

Are you unbiased in advising others?





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If we could learn from the mistakes of others...

Many wise books say that a really clever person learns from the mistakes of others. But there are only a few clever persons, because after having gained a good amount of experience, they begin advising. What a boring and horribly perfect world we would live in, if we could learn from the mistakes of others. People would just stop making them at a certain point.



Conclusion: our wisdom comes together with our experience, but the same wisdom can also stop us. Grandfather probably never experienced fresh morning grass with his feet again...



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20th Quote

Satisfy the horse, and the rider will also be satisfied...

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Is egoism really a bad thing?

Despite the fact that in certain parts of the book I criticize egoism, I would like to remain objective and mention several positive things about healthy egoism. In the past, when we were small children, we were taught that egoism is a bad thing. Since young children have not developed their intellect yet, they are only ruled by instincts. Looking at it from one side, it seems as if this is the purest egoism. A child is constantly told that he should be ashamed of such a quality. In this way, children are imperatively taught sharing.



Don't give priority to anyone

When egoism becomes inadequate (not helping, but disturbing life), it fills with sickness, and turns into egocentrism. If a person is psychologically balanced – is satisfied with his social welfare and has good health, then there's no big reason to overrun the limits of natural egoism, and want more than he has. But if his daily life is unsuccessful and full of never-ending problems and diseases, a person can become egocentric. All this arises from a desire to end the circle of failures, and ensure bigger guarantees for things through constant limitless saving. It is remindful of a child who doesn't want to share sweets – the more he doesn't want to, the stronger his mother pushes. Here the law of balance is worth remembering – anything that you allow to



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dominate you, ruins you. The more guarantees we seek, the more extreme they become. Let's read an Indian fairytale for this case.

A fairytale about a wolf



A common mistake

There's no other way. Many repeat the same mistake – and without care for their outer egoism, they try to throw everything away and bury themselves in spiritual pursuits. In this way their suffering becomes worse, because both sides are unsatisfied. Let me explain this in another way. What would a day be like, if you didn't sleep well the night before? It is the same for your outer egoism. Care for the horse, and the rider will also be satisfied.






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21st Quote

Throw off what's not yours, and you will find the joy of life...

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When was the last time you sang in the shower?

Let's start with a question – when was the last time you sang in the shower? I ask this, because such a desire is related to mental health. During growth and development, we save many things which block our ability to feel joy in life. For example, burdening ourselves with various commitments and promises like “I must” and “I'll do this”, chains us down.



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Which stones should stay?

You probably won't succeed in throwing away all the stones. In an ideal situation, it would be logical to get rid of all them first, and try to not accept anything new for a while. After the emotion of joy appears, the real stones will show up - stones that you can carry with a smile. But if you don't dare to get rid of all them, only leave the ones which inspire you and that you really believe in. If a stone-commitment or a desire doesn't bring joy, it really brings an opposite emotion – stress.



Learn to observe yourself objectively. See how many stones you have willingly and automatically accepted to hang from your neck. Learn the art of letting go. Learn not to make excuses for others when you don't want to accept the stones they want to impose on you. Find the joy of life once more...



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22nd Quote

Don't overestimate yourself, and you won't be angry at anything...

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The concept of conceit

Let's explore some terms here. Conceit appears if we pay too much attention to, or overestimate ourselves. Conceit appears in our mind at first. To be more specific, it's an intellectually created fruit. Conceit works in two ways. In one way, it's overvaluing yourself, and in the other – devaluing. Many people repeat to themselves: “I'm an important person”, “my job is full of responsibility” or “my opinion is better”. A much worse option is self-devaluing, or even despising yourself. Whenever doing anything, you always expect that the worst thing will happen, and always think that you could have done it better. The polarization differs, but the essence is the same.

Outer conceit is a natural consequence of internal thinking. You will recognize outer conceit from such sentences as: “I only like this” and “I think that this is better than that”. We choose one thing from several. The choice itself is not so bad, but a problem occurs when we value our chosen option over others.

The Law of balance is an enemy of conceit





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The dark side of conceit



By expressing our direct and indirect desires, we give more or less importance to things, and turn the balance principle on. If you say that you hate something, it will stay with you in various life situations. You will be stuck with it, until you make peace with it, or go to other side of the extreme, and begin adoring it. Adoring it will also be an extreme, and sooner or later the balance principle will turn you towards the other direction. This has no end – until you find a balance.

Celebrate an extreme condition



Only after reaching a bottom can you can take a step. But don't take too long of a step – the opposite extreme is not as far as you think...




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23rd Quote

Want to be happy? Be happy!

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What is happiness?

People have looked for happiness for all of time and have tried to discover what it is. Many books and dissertations have been written about happiness and seeking it. The representatives of various religions say that they have their own ways to happiness and fullness, and kindly share advice about how to achieve it. You will also find an ocean of lecturers and advisors saying that they can help with such a question. If we put all this information together, it seems that people these days should be happier, but it doesn't work this way somehow. When watching the increasing pace of the world, one gets the opposite impression – that people are moving further and further away from the thing they call happiness. Here we can see a paradox – the more we seek something, the faster it moves away from us. The opposite directions lead to sadness, stress and tension. The more we try to push these emotions away from ourselves, the more circumstances supporting them appear, and all this seems like a closed circle.

Can the fruition of a goal be equal to happiness?





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What is real happiness?



Your way is the best, because it's Your way...



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24th Quote

Emotions are your best advisors...

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Emotions vs. Intellect

During the time of the great philosopher Plato, it was said that cognition is followed by feelings, and they are part of the mind. Still, Plato himself was one of the fathers of the idea that feelings represent the more primitive, animal instincts first, and aren't in harmony with thinking. Later this thought was revisited by Sigmund Freud and his followers. What about after that? These days we can hear the widespread opinion that emotions can even disturb thinking, and that they should be controlled, tempered, and reduced by other aggressive actions. It's probably a natural thing – that one side denies the other.



Emotions in our daily life

One time I had the possibility to watch a TV show where the topic was emotional intelligence. The announcer mentioned several well-known names and their success stories. The thing that got the most attention was a picture of an iceberg. As we all know, the peak of an iceberg floating in water is equal to only one tenth of its whole mass. The upper part of the iceberg can represent IQ, or intellect, and the underwater part – the EQ, or emotional intelligence. It's a very important fact – the emotional intelligence part is nine times bigger than the intellectual one. I think that a better allegory can't be



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found. If you watch your daily life carefully, you'll see emotions everywhere. Even in deciding something or what in our opinion is strictly logical, they participate in one way or another.



The mind clearly separates what is good and what is bad. To a wise person, it's one undivided thing. In other words, a wise person sees no difference between good and bad – it's one and the same. People who have had the attracting polarization since birth intensively develop the side of intellect committed to improving and dominating, whereas people with the letting go type develop the side concerned with emotional intelligence. Emotions are constructive in their natural occurrence, but any effort by the intellect “to control” them brings destruction.

Intellectual impact on emotions



Communication with other people and matters will sort itself out. Don't give up after the first failure. After learning how to cover things up, you'll now have to try uncovering.

Don't bottle up your emotions. Remember that doing this is only an intellectual attempt to stop their natural flow.




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25th Quote

Excellence of life is in a feeling of measure!

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Do you know when enough is enough?

The feeling of measure is probably the most important of all wisdoms. A person’s personality, body, feelings, senses and needs are a strongly interrelated complex. Still, each part has a tendency to become extreme if it becomes dominant. How can we recognize when a limit is near or being approached?



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Pathology is always near

Clearly feel the limit, behind which suffering is waiting. Don't force yourself to work or run around, but be active. When seeking comfort or beauty, don't be greedy even in thoughts, but be particular. In compiling knowledge, don't try to become quick-witted, but instead look deeply. In taking compassion on others, don't complain, but be responsive to people who need your help. After achieving well-being, don't be jealous, don't steal, and don’t try to look big, but know its price. After becoming religious, don't condemn non-believers, threaten them or swear at them. Try to be a wise person, accepting both differences and contrasts. Then you won't cross the line.

Pathology is not somewhere else. It's always near. It's intangible. People sick in body and soul are always right...


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26th Quote

Only a person who has given everything away has nothing to lose...

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27th Quote

Death is the best lawyer...

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Fear of death



Fear of death is our constant companion. When we were children, we didn’t understand what happened to grandfather or why he was lying still and everyone was crying. After our consciousness and egoism develop and we grow up, we begin to get used to the fact of death. Our fear of death is directly proportional to the size of our egoism. The bigger our egoism is, the more fear we have that one day we'll have to leave without taking anything we’ve saved.



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The main cause of fear



Death is the best lawyer!






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28th Quote

Learn to love yourself, so you can love the world

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Is loving yourself a sin?



Love feeling duality

There's no concept about people that shouldn’t include us also. Any doctrine trying to prove such a concept would contradict itself. While it may seem to all of us that we are separate and independent individuals, in looking at this from the side of duality, we're actually closely related one to another. The same duality principle trips us up.






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Extremes in loving yourself



Start with simple things. Stand facing a mirror. Stare into your eyes. Try to continue this for as long as you can. Say hello to yourself. Say to yourself loudly – I love you! Every morning and every evening repeat to yourself: “I accept myself as the person I am. I love myself!” Do it sincerely. Go for a walk. Eat a favourite dessert. Start loving yourself...



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29th Quote

The entire future is in the present...

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30th Quote

Don't make excuses – people are still always dissatisfied...

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Whatever we do

Whatever we do, people around us are still always dissatisfied. When we're single, people ask about our significant other. Why we are single? And if we aren't – when are we going to get married? After marriage they ask about a child. After the child is born, they ask about a second one. After the second one, they say – maybe it's enough, or maybe you're planning a third child? If divorce happens in a family they ask – why? And when we meet another person after a divorce, they wonder and don't understand, asking why so fast?

Whatever we do, people are always dissatisfied with our situation. This doesn’t happen in only these situations, it is true throughout life. Here the question arises – is it worth making excuses for others? They live in such situations themselves. Other people ask them the same things.





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31st Quote

If you want to change the world - begin with yourself...

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Youthful naivety

The magic of youth, as wise people say, is hidden not in the youth itself, but in its naivety and belief that the entire world belongs to you and you can change it. The reasons for making changes may not be present yet, but there is still an unending desire. When a person grows up and becomes more mature, he becomes wiser and realizes that the world can’t be changed so easily. But youth doesn't give up – a young man first reduces his world-conquering ambition down to the size of his native country. After some time it becomes clear that this is also impossible…





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32nd Quote

Your desires and reality are separated by an abyss...

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33rd Quote

Space is limited by infinity, while believing has no limits...

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The power of thought is limitless

Human life, like any other expression of energy, is a chain of choices, causes and consequences. It's like a big stage, and the director is you. Yours, as the main performer's role and destiny, depends on your own choice.



Alliance of thought and emotion






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Control your thoughts

There's a saying - “bad luck rarely walks alone”. Maybe you have thought, why? When an accident happens, all your consciousness is filled with dealing with the problem. Everything you send out – thoughts and suffering– is related to it. What you send out,



Knowing that the director of this stage is You, try to begin choosing. If you observe yourself and the environment, the first results will appear soon enough. The most important thing is conscious and constant control of your thoughts. Become the master of your own thoughts...



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34th Quote

The most important rule is to have no rules...

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35th Quote

Form symbolizes the past...

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Cycles of life

A person goes through six stages in their development. Let's call them life cycles. Every cycle begins, develops and becomes mature. A mature cycle is changed by another following cycle. In the East it is said – all truths are created with a purpose to deny them. The principles of a mature cycle get stronger, and sometimes begin to protect the cycle itself. This is how a conflict arises in a person. When you get stuck in one of these cycles, pathology appears, and the pathological indicator is a feeling of suffering in consciousness. That's why heroism doesn't go along with peacefulness. It is inflexible and constantly searching – with dogmatism and an addiction to saving and keeping. So we must get rid of hardened and inflexible principles in our daily life.





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36th Quote

You can desire something, or you can just do it...

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Do you have any unrealized dreams?

What do you want to do in the coming year? Many of you will mention more than one goal: to begin exercises in the morning, to change eating habits, to learn a new craft, to write a book, to learn how to take photos, and so on. We all have desires and unrealized goals, and the worst thing is that they often only stay at this level. Research has shown that 82% of people have some unrealized dreams. They don't disappear. Years go by and the blaming of yourself for unrealized things only gets stronger. The main reason for doing nothing is not knowing how to achieve what you want. Wholesale education highlights analytical thinking and devalues the creative potential that is relevant to the display of a personality. Any person with analytical thinking will tend to prove that your dream is a meaningless waste of time. Another thing you have to conquer is fear.





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37th Quote

When you realize that you have something – you will lose it at once...

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38th Quote

Learn to feel the limit – then you will avoid suffering...

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39th Quote

„He who defends the humiliated, only heightens himself...“

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Gold only glints in shit...

When you see that gold only glints when surrounded by shit, you'll begin to realize that good can't exist without bad. When you understand that a winner's triumph is built on another person's pain, it won't be difficult to realize that a clever one is best seen only among fools. After looking deeper you'll notice that he, who is fighting for peace, is the biggest aggressor, and that the one who is fighting for justice the loudest, is the most unfair. Everything has an opposite motive.





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Opposite motives

When people begin to understand that beauty is beauty, ugliness appears for them. When they realize that good is good – the bad appears. No one has managed to cheat the forces of balance yet…



Learn not to tilt the balance anymore

So, our communication with the people around us should be very simple now. Everyone betrays themself just after opening their mouth. Everyone being torn by the balancing forces is defending the opposite side of the balance by trying to compensate for the other force. By seeing their opposite motives, you will understand on which side of the balance people are really standing. Then you'll be able to avoid their attempts to involve you in their balancing act. You will realize at which point the limit is being crossed, and what you should correct in yourself. After learning not to tilt the balance, you'll get rid of the habit of harming other people. After learning how to not harm other people, you will find the joy of life anew. After finding the joy of life, all the other things will happen by themselves...



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40th Quote

Only at the highest point of a conflict will you realize what a fool you are...

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Intellect is the enemy of happiness

You may remember that you were much happier in childhood. Then why has the amount of happiness reduced so much over the passing years? Mainly, it's the intellect's fault. After learning to think logically, we open the door to duality. Duality divides the world into two parts. We attach importance to one part, reaching for it with all our efforts, and just deny the second one. But the more we seek, the less we get. People who follow the bird of happiness, chase it further away just by this action…


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41st Quote

The house is empty, but only because of this can you live there...

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42nd Quote

A dream or reality – only you exist...

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Which reality is real?

Since our birth we have been told that the world we live in is material and absolutely the only reality, and we have continued to live our lives according to this. Contrary to this, some of the newest discoveries of modern physics (physics, which officially denies other realities and only recognizes substance!) show us that everything works in a totally different way than we think…



All reality exists only in your head

For the purpose of understanding the secret hiding behind the material world, let's remember what we know about our sight, which provides us with the greatest amount of information about our environment. Visual understanding has several stages. When we “see”, tiny particles of light called photons are received from objects in the world around us by our eyes. They go through the lenses in our eyes and focus on the retina, which covers the back surface of each eye. Here the particles of light are transformed into electrical impulses and are sent by nerve cells to the visual centre in the rear portion of our brain. This is the place where the understanding of visual information happens. All the things and events that we see in our life are experienced in this tiny, dark corner of our brain. The text that you are reading now and the limitless landscape that you can see



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by looking across the sky really arise in a small part of the brain occupying a few cubic centimeters in area.



Here's another fact – an argument. When Columbus reached the coast of America, the native people couldn't see any of his ships. They only noticed ripples in the water. You may ask – why? The people simply didn't have that information or image available in their brain to be able to recognize them.

Change your perception

Objects that may seem very far from us are also only forms experienced in that same tiny area of our brain. For instance, a person looking at the stars knows that they are at a distance of millions of light-years. But at that same moment, the stars are also in the vision centre of his brain. This means that there's no distance at all…






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43rd Quote

You are blessed while having an illusion, and condemned without it...

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What is an illusion?

Everything in our life begins with an illusion. After getting up, we plan our day mentally. Our meetings and deals are “painted” by our imagination. Such “painting” of a certain scenario is called creating an Illusion.



You are blessed while having an illusion

You are blessed while having an illusion. You are blessed because during that time everything is given over to Life. When in an illusion, your consciousness is drowning in endless satisfaction. The bigger the illusion is, the more everything around seems nice and perfect. You want to do good for everyone and are surprised why others don't understand such joy.



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Bring your illusion back

There is a way which can help you bring your illusion back – Letting go. Yes, Letting go with a big L. If you sincerely let go of everything that you have already experienced, you will have a great possibility to create an illusion once more.






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44th Quote

Find true stillness, anything else doesn't matter...

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Stress is our constant companion

Hardly anyone can brag about not having any stress in their life. Whether a lot or a little, stress is our daily companion. Permanent tension is harmful to our health. The body can suffer from it, but tension first appears in our mind. On one hand, stress is relevant because it's a tool that can be used to increase our comfort zone. On the other hand, anything that goes to an extreme can hurt or destroy us.



Causes of stress

We react differently to things that cause stress. What only seems to be a small problem for one person can become a crippling millstone for another. The mass media is full of advice on how to fight stress – you need to eat properly, sleep well, get exercise, walk in the fresh air, combine your work with rest, and so on. When looking at people who follow this advice, a conclusion can be made that such methods really don't work, and if they do work, then not for long. The reason for them not working is that everyone tries to fight the consequences of stress without eliminating the cause.



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45th Quote

Things you look for, don't really exist...

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46th Quote

The one seeking truth should realize that it's everywhere...

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What is truth?

Truth. It seems to be a simple thing, clearly defined and understandable. Still, do we realize what the real truth is? If we want to find this out, it's useful to see how we understand it. Some people say - “there's no one truth, there are my, his/hers, and other people’s. But what is the one undeniable truth? Separate truths are only differences between your mindset and mine. Others say - “you have to fight for truth”. Any fighting for truth is simply trying to impose your own truth on others. So…



What would you remove from this picture?

It isn't a play on words. When we closely observe life we can clearly see that everything is perfect, and so it can be called the Supreme Truth. After…



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Everything returns to One

After realizing that everything is Truth, you'll be one step closer to the enlightened. They experienced this by throwing off dualism, and by returning everything to one point. You also experienced it in childhood. Ask a child, what is the Supreme Truth? Things that the child is doing at the moment will be their Supreme Truth - the brilliant quality to be in the Here and Now. The child doesn't choose – everything consists of one to him. He doesn't realize what is bad. Someone's bad actions against him are just a reduced space of living, which he accepts without any claims. When crying, he only softens the situation. It's a mechanism for letting go created by nature.






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47th Quote

Don't blame life, and everything will be a miracle...

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48th Quote

A borrowed jacket never suits you...

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Collecting points

In the modern pragmatic world, a healthy view of life with values acceptable to all is appreciated. Values motivate us to seek goals in the same spheres – in science, at work, at home, in children’s education, in communication with friends, in career, holidays and bank account planning. If you want to become successful in the eyes of society, you need to collect as many points as you can in each of the spheres. Your children enter a particular university – points. You manage to relax on holiday in a sunny resort – points. You buy a bigger house – points. All of your life passes by while collecting them. But at particular moments, often because of personal failures in collecting points or an unexpected painful trial, a person asks himself – is this really what I want? What are my values, and how do they fit society’s standards?

What is yours?





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49th Quote

Illness is an opportunity for you...

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50th Quote

Stop dreaming and begin living...

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A physical body is an essential condition for experience

A person is a complex creature consisting of a body and a consciousness, or soul. The physical body provides the possibility to experience life, and this is an essential condition for development. When the physical body dies, the possibility for this experience disappears. After death, a person stays in the same state of mind and level of consciousness that he had when he was alive. With the help of our physical senses we discover this wonderful world. Our senses transmit information to the centers of our senses, and we then feel, realize or think of something, and in this way interpret the information about the world for ourselves. A person who no longer has a physical body isn't able to accept the world as it is in real time. He only understands it in the same way and in the same form that he understood it when having a physical body as a…





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51st Quote

Know without words...

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How many words there are...

There are about 3000 different languages in the world. Nowadays it's difficult to imagine that people didn't speak at all way back in the past. It’s difficult to imagine being without a language. Even in silence we think about particular concepts with verbal expression. A person who can hear and speak doesn't know how a deaf or mute person lives and thinks about the world.

When did people begin to speak? Some sources say that it started about 35,000 years ago. An even more important thing is how much we have managed to say through all these years. Primitives used to utilize several main words, expressing such concepts as “danger”, “prey”, and so on, whereas modern people get lost in words more and more, because the amount of words is rising proportionally to human development. It is estimated that we use about 5000 words daily, and about 80% of them are expressed in thought! How many words are there, and how little meaning is contained in some of them? The more concepts we have describing any specific action, the more difficult is to interpret the meaning.

The essence fits into several words





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52nd Quote

The only obstacle along the Way is You...

Zett Why

Dare to take responsibility

Since the times of primitive communities, people have worshiped things they couldn’t understand. Along with the development of people, the forms of worshiping have also evolved. We have moved from a direct worship of the sun to bowing to mystical deities. All the religious confessions and many techniques of spiritual development contain lots of norms and rules, which bind us to performing certain, firmly set physical actions, or limit them, and sometimes even define the direction and character of our own thoughts. This may seem right from the psychological side, but...



Everything that you're searching for is already in yourself

Many religions state that all the answers are in ourselves. People go to spiritual places, visit various teachers, and create a bigger or smaller illusion about their…



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Look in yourself!

That's how we move from one side of the balance to another. The two different poles are incompatible. So we have to choose – to live in the outside world with all our heart, or in the inside (spiritual) one. I have often had the possibility to watch how people are torn between the two extremes.



Begin loving yourself!

In the East it is said - “The one who can win, never begins a fight”. It's the basis for the philosophy and morality of many schools of martial arts. Those who have…




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In this book I have written everything that I have found on my Way, whereas I have no real Way. I'm just trying to react according to circumstances. On the other hand, I realize that even the circumstances I find myself in have been created by myself. So, there's nowhere to go – here is the beginning and the end of the Way...



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Final word

The end of the beginning

The book that you have just finished reading was already written 15 years ago. It was a form of pseudo egoism that delayed releasing it earlier. Every five years such a desire would build up, but I always assured myself that it was only conceit, in wanting to impose my opinions on others. The decision to do it finally came as a vision after intensive non-stop meditation for ten days. During those days I realized that not sharing such insights is a much bigger egoism. While meditating, I remembered how I had shared my observations with the people around me. Seeing their changed lives and the joy in their eyes, I understood that if it was helpful to them, it could probably help more people.

It doesn't matter who I am

With the purpose of satisfying my desire not to make my conceit bigger, and to not create one more cult of personality, I want to inform you at once, that you will find almost nothing about the author of this book on the Internet. The name Zett Why is my pseudonym. I think that the wisdom contained in the book has much more meaning than the one who has written it.

As I have already mentioned, I have no intention to create a new religious movement. The only religion that I follow is a feeling of satisfaction in consciousness. Plus, you already know how to separate the real feeling of satisfaction from the one caused by egoism. The purpose of this book wasn't to deny your own beliefs. On the contrary – I hope that this book will help you to become a better believer, and it doesn't matter which religion is the most acceptable to you.

After studying all the religions I realized that they talk about the same thing, only in different words. The main idea of this book is seeking the feeling of satisfaction. If your belief is a source of this feeling, give your devotion to it with all your heart. Let the satisfaction feeling be your guiding star. Just go the Way of life, and try to celebrate every day.

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The last wish – despite the fact that you are “teaching” children, it's you who can learn the most from them. In their first years of life, their main strength is their feeling of satisfaction in consciousness. They find endless joy even in small things. Their consciousness is not shaded by goals, and their intellect is not developed yet. They are constantly in the Here and Now one hundred percent.

Childhood is a special period of time. During their first three years of life, all the main qualities form in a child and we can already see the basic components of a future personality. A child learns about life and living it from two sources. The first – parents and the values they transmit. The second source, forming external reactions, is fairytales. Fairytales are not just a fantasy of someone. Certain behavior models are programmed in them. In each country, the heroes and their behavior differ according to the values of its inhabitants.

Children learn behavior and reaction models from fairytales, which they unconsciously adapt for later in life. This statement has guided me to the last thing I want to say to you – my next book will be called “32 Fairytales by Buddha”. There you will find the most popular 32 fairytales rewritten in Buddhism style, intended for introducing the Buddhism attitude to your child in their early life. Each of the fairytales is looked through in detail and shows what behavior models are formed in the original version and its changes.

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