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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

Vernon Howard

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
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
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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.
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Simple World Worry
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
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.
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Mind Thinking Years
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
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
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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Brave Crisis Giving Self Suggest
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way

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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