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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

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Home Love Mistake
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
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Belief Believe Looks
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
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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Loss Opposites Thinking
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
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
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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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

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