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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

Vernon Howard

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Events Movement Outcomes
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
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
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
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
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
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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Desire Understanding Water
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Simple World Worry
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints

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