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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Vernon Howard

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
VERNON HOWARD

Acquisition Understanding
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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Real Simple Spiritual
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
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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Emergency Language Occupied Operation Simple
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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
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
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Mistake Past Regret
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

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