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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

Vernon Howard

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.
VERNON HOWARD

Simple World Worry
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
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
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
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Psychics Sea Self
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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
VERNON HOWARD

Life Order Vanity
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
VERNON HOWARD

Hurt Pain Resistance
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
VERNON HOWARD

Cups Tables Water

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