Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
VERNON HOWARDAn obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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