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

Vernon Howard

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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Feet Sensible Years
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Home Love Mistake
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Mind Thinking Years
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
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
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
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Assuming Emotional Feelings
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual

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

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