Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
Vernon HowardTruth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
Vernon HowardWhen told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
Vernon HowardBitterness 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.
Vernon HowardMysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.
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