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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

Vernon Howard

Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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Rain Self Wind
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
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
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Success Successful Truth
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
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Challenges Feelings Gratitude
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
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding

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