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.
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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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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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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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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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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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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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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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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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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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