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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

Vernon Howard

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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Home Love Mistake
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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Desire Understanding Water
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Awakening Needs Perfect
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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Feet Sensible Years
Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Courage Negativity Thinking
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Assuming Emotional Feelings

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