Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
VERNON HOWARDInner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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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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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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You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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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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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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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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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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