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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

Vernon Howard

All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
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
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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
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
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
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

All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

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