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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.

Vernon Howard

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
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
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
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
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
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
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
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Carnival Costumes Crowds
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Awakening Needs Perfect
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
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 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 can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.

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