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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

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
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
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
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
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes
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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Cups Tables Water

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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