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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

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
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
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
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
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
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Life Order Vanity
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Psychics Sea Self
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Carnival Costumes Crowds
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Events Movement Outcomes
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong

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