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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Vernon Howard

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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Emergency Language Occupied Operation Simple
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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 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
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Success Successful Truth
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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Feet Sensible Years
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Beauty Poor Skins
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
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

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