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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

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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
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 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
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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Hurt Ideas Revenge
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
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
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
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
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth

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