Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
VERNON HOWARDSelf-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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 miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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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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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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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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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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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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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 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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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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