Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
VERNON HOWARDYou have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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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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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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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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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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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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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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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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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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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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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 clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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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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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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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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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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