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

Vernon Howard

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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
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
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
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
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
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
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
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
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Beauty Poor Skins
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
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
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
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
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Acceptance Block Simple
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
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking

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