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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

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
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset
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
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
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Consider Fall Men Mind
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Conflicts Else Flowing Things
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
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

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

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