Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
VERNON HOWARDWe cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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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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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Genuine effort is success.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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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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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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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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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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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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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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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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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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