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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

Vernon Howard

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
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Home Love Mistake
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
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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
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 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

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