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

Vernon Howard

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
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
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Battle Causes Frustration
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
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
Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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Completed Examine Naturally Refuse
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
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
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
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

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