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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

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
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
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Proportion Running Transformation
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Always Break Mind Through 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
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
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Spiritual Teacher Wise
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People

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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