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

Vernon Howard

Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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Block Ground Higher Hurt
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
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
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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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Psychics Sea Self
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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Hurt Ideas Revenge
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
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

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