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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

Vernon Howard

There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Needs Reality Self
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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
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
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self
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
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Air Liberty Men
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
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
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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Hurt Ideas Revenge
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self

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