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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

Vernon Howard

Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
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
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Simple World Worry
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Life Order Vanity
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

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