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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.

Vernon Howard

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
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Courage Negativity Thinking
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
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
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
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
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
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
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
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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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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