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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.

Vernon Howard

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Carnival Costumes Crowds
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
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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Desire Understanding Water
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
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Acceptance Block Simple
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
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
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words

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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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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