Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
VERNON HOWARDOne 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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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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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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