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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Vernon Howard

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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
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
Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Psychics Sea Self
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men 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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
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
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

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