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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.

Vernon Howard

To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
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
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Consider Fall Men Mind
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
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Mind Thinking Years
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Home Love Mistake
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
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
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

Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.

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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.

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