Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
VERNON HOWARDExamine 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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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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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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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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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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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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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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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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We 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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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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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