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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

Vernon Howard

There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Needs Reality Self
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
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 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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Mistake Past Regret
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
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
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
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing

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