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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

Vernon Howard

The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Assuming Emotional Feelings
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
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
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Loss Opposites Thinking
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Conflicts Else Flowing Things
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
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
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
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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

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