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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

Vernon Howard

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
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.
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Completed Examine Naturally Refuse
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
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
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
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
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
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Air Liberty Men
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Success Successful Truth
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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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Inspirational Strength Strong

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