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.
VERNON HOWARDInterpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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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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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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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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