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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Vernon Howard

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Life Order Vanity
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Needs Reality Self
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
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
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
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
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Beauty Poor Skins
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
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
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
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
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
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality

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