You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
VERNON HOWARDAloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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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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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 are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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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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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 are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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