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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

Vernon Howard

All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
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
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Mistake Past Regret
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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Emergency Language Occupied Operation Simple
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
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
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
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

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