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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

Vernon Howard

Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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Completed Examine Naturally Refuse
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Battle Causes Frustration
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
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
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
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
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Courage Negativity Thinking
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Awakening Needs Perfect
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self

All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

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