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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.

Vernon Howard

To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
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
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Battle Causes Frustration
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Awakening Needs Perfect
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Challenges Feelings Gratitude
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
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Spiritual Teacher Wise
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Cups Tables Water
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
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
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never

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