The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
VERNON HOWARDDon’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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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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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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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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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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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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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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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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