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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

Vernon Howard

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 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
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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 most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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Rain Self Wind
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 have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self

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