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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.

Vernon Howard

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Simple World Worry
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
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Challenges Feelings Gratitude
Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
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
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
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
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
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Home Love Mistake
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
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

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