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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

Vernon Howard

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
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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
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
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
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
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
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
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
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong

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