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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

Vernon Howard

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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
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
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
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Needs Reality Self
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
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
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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never

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