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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.

Vernon Howard

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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Desire Understanding Water
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Consider Fall Men Mind
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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
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
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
Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Psychics Sea Self
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really 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

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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