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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Vernon Howard

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
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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Block Ground Higher Hurt
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Carnival Costumes Crowds
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Air Liberty Men
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
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
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Beauty Poor Skins
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing

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