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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

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
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
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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Hurt Ideas Revenge
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
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
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
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
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Assuming Emotional Feelings
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
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
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words

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