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.
VERNON HOWARDThere 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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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of 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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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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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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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Genuine effort is success.
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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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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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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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 clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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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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