Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
VERNON HOWARDPseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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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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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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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 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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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 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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