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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

Vernon Howard

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
VERNON HOWARD

Life Order Vanity
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
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
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
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
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
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
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
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
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness

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