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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.

Vernon Howard

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
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
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
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
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
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
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Cups Tables Water
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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Rain Self Wind
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
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
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
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
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole

Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.

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