You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
VERNON HOWARDDon’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.
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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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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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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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