We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
VERNON HOWARDYou 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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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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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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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 know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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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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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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