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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

Vernon Howard

The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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
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
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
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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Home Love Mistake
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
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
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
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies

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