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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.

Vernon Howard

The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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
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
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 told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
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
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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Block Ground Higher Hurt
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
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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Spiritual Teacher Wise

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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