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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

Vernon Howard

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Belief Believe Looks
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Life Order Vanity
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
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
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
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
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing

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