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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

Vernon Howard

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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Spiritual Teacher Wise
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset
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
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
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
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
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole

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