Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
VERNON HOWARDFreedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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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 truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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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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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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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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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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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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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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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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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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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