Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
VERNON HOWARDA person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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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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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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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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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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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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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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