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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Vernon Howard

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Belief Believe Looks
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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
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
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
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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Feet Sensible Years
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
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
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power 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

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