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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

Vernon Howard

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
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
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
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Success Successful Truth
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
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
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
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
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
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Events Movement Outcomes
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
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
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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Loss Opposites Thinking

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