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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

Vernon Howard

Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset
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
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Assuming Emotional Feelings
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People

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