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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.

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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
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Beauty Poor Skins
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Success Successful Truth
We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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Desire Understanding Water
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Loss Opposites Thinking
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Needs Reality Self
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
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness

Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.

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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.

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