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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

Vernon Howard

Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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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Belief Believe Looks
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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
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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Rain Self Wind
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Cups Tables Water
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Carnival Costumes Crowds
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 answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

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