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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

Vernon Howard

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
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset
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
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Loss Opposites Thinking
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
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
All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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Brave Crisis Giving Self Suggest
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
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
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
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
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

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

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