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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.

Vernon Howard

Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
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 person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
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
Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Psychics Sea Self
Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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Block Ground Higher Hurt
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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Beauty Poor Skins
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
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception

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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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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