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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

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
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
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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Hurt Ideas Revenge
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Courage Negativity Thinking
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
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
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
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
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
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
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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Completed Examine Naturally Refuse
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
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance

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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