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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.

Vernon Howard

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Courage Negativity Thinking
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
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
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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Hurt Ideas Revenge
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
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
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
You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Conflicts Else Flowing Things
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Proportion Running Transformation

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