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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

Vernon Howard

When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Battle Causes Frustration
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
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
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self
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
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 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

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