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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

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
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes
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
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Consider Fall Men Mind
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
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
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
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Proportion Running Transformation
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison

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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