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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

Vernon Howard

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
VERNON HOWARD

Mind Thinking Years
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
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
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
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
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Needs Reality Self
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
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
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
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
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

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