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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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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Breathing Finding Yourself Personality
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
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
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
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Battle Causes Frustration
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 world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Spiritual Teacher Wise
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words

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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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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