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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

Vernon Howard

An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Challenges Feelings Gratitude
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
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
Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Events Movement Outcomes
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
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
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Mind Thinking Years
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Proportion Running Transformation
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

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