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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

Vernon Howard

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
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
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
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Real Simple Spiritual
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
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
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
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
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
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding

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