Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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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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Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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