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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.

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
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
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
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
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
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Spiritual Teacher Wise
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield

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