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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.

Vernon Howard

To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
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
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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
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
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Battle Causes Frustration
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes
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
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
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
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
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
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Conflicts Else Flowing Things

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