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.
VERNON HOWARDYou must never fear anything at all.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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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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You must never fear anything at all.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Genuine effort is success.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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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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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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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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