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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

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
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
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
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
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
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
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
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
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
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
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
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
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
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

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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