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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

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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Block Ground Higher Hurt
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Assuming Emotional Feelings
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Always Break Mind Through Trying
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Consider Fall Men Mind
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
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
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
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
You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Conflicts Else Flowing Things
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
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
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
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
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery

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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