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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.

Vernon Howard

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Spiritual Teacher Wise
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Acceptance Block Simple
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
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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Feet Sensible Years
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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Assuming Emotional Feelings
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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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Creativity Dark Mistakes
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Needs Reality Self
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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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Psychics Sea Self
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want

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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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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