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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

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
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
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
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
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
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
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
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
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
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset

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