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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

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
You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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Emergency Language Occupied Operation Simple
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
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
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
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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Rain Self Wind
Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Real Simple Spiritual
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
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
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

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