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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

Vernon Howard

You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
VERNON HOWARD

Care Made Mind
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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Hurt Ideas Revenge
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Awakening Needs Perfect
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
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Battle Causes Frustration
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Simple World Worry
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
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Mind Thinking Years
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
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
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
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding

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