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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

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Home Love Mistake
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
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Air Liberty Men
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Carnival Costumes Crowds
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
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

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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