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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

Vernon Howard

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
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Loss Opposites Thinking
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 slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
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
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
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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Brave Crisis Giving Self Suggest
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Mistake Past Regret
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

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