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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

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
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
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
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
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
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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Mistake Past Regret
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
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
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
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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Completed Examine Naturally Refuse
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
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

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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