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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

Vernon Howard

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
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
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
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
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 only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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Feet Sensible Years
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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

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