Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
VERNON HOWARDAnger 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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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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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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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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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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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 need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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