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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.

Vernon Howard

We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Assuming Emotional Feelings
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Simple World Worry
Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Real Simple Spiritual
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Loss Opposites Thinking

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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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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