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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.

Vernon Howard

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
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Courage Negativity Thinking
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
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
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Loss Opposites Thinking
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Cups Tables Water
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Air Liberty Men
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
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
Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Psychics Sea Self
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Life Order Vanity

Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.

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