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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

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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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Events Movement Outcomes
Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Real Simple Spiritual
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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Conflicts Else Flowing Things
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Spiritual Teacher Wise
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Challenges Feelings Gratitude
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Breathing Finding Yourself Personality
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Always Break Mind Through Trying
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever

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