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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

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
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
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
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
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
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 leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Life Order Vanity
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Success Successful Truth

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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