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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.

Vernon Howard

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Awakening Needs Perfect
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
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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
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
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self

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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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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