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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

Vernon Howard

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
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
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
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
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Mistake Past Regret
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Home Love Mistake
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Challenges Feelings Gratitude
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Belief Believe Looks
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

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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