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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

Vernon Howard

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
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
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
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
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
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Success Successful Truth
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

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

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