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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

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
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
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
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
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

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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