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#241 The Power of Our Will
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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 from The Bhagavad Gita
Self-mastery.
All the great teachers discuss its importance. Buddha advised us to "Conquer ourselves!" while Rumi taught us that “The intelligent want self control; children want candy." And da Vinci was clear when he said that “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
Here's to the power of our will to reshape our lives...
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