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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

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
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
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
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
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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Rain Self Wind
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
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
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance

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