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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

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
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
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Acceptance Block Simple
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
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
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
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Always Break Mind Through Trying
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
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
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
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Mind Thinking Years
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life

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