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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Vernon Howard

The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
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
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Assuming Emotional Feelings
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Acceptance Block Simple
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
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
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

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