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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Vernon Howard

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
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
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
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
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
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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Rain Self Wind
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
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying

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