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

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
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
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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
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
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 search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Air Liberty Men
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
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
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Always Break Mind Through Trying
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Proportion Running Transformation

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

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