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

Vernon Howard

We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
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
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Belief Believe Looks
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
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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 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
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
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

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