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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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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
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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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
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
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
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
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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
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
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying

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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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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