When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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You 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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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You must never fear anything at all.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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