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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Vernon Howard

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Awakening Needs Perfect
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
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
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
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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
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
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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Hurt Ideas Revenge
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
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
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

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