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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

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
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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Feet Sensible Years
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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Block Ground Higher Hurt
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
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

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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