Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
VERNON HOWARDAn 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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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.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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 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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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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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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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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