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Here is Tony’s admonition: you must not accept my words out of respect but should analyze them the way the Buddha advised seekers, “the way the goldsmith analyzes gold—by cutting, scraping, rubbing, melting.”
A Year With Anthony De Mello
Anthony De Mello
Time stood still as I realized for the first time that I’d always looked at my entire life, everything I’d been through, from the wrong perspective. Yes, all the abuse I’d experienced and the negativity I had to push through challenged me to the core, but in that moment I stopped seeing myself as the victim of bad circumstance, and saw my life as the ultimate training ground instead. My disadvantages had been callousing my mind all along and had prepared me for that moment in that pool with Psycho Pete.
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
Miles shook his head. “I’ll allow you know the man better than I do. And yet . . . well, people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives. The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—”
Brothers in Arms
Lois McMaster Bujold
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