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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

Vernon Howard

Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
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
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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 told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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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Block Ground Higher Hurt
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
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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
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

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

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