Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
VERNON HOWARDIs 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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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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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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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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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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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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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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One 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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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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