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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Vernon Howard

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
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Breathing Finding Yourself Personality
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Life Order Vanity
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Simple World Worry
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Mind Thinking Years
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
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
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
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
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
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
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self

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