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

Vernon Howard

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
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
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
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Events Movement Outcomes
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
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
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

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

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