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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Acceptance Block Simple
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self
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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Emergency Language Occupied Operation Simple
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Carnival Costumes Crowds
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Consider Fall Men Mind
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never

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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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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