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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.

Vernon Howard

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
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Mind Thinking Years
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Belief Believe Looks
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
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
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
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

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