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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

Vernon Howard

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
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Always Break Mind Through Trying
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
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
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Consider Fall Men Mind
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Needs Reality Self
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm

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