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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.

Vernon Howard

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
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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Hurt Ideas Revenge
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
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
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
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

You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.

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