One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
VERNON HOWARDSelf-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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