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

Vernon Howard

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
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
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
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
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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 truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Simple World Worry
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
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

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