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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

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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 clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Success Successful Truth
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
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 must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
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

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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