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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

Vernon Howard

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
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 clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Breathing Finding Yourself Personality
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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Rain Self Wind
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
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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
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

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