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

Vernon Howard

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
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
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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
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
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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Brave Crisis Giving Self Suggest
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance

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

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