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

Vernon Howard

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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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
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
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
Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Real Simple Spiritual
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Simple World Worry
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
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
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
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want

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

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