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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.

Vernon Howard

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
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
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
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
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Air Liberty Men
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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Brave Crisis Giving Self Suggest
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality

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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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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