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When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.

Vernon Howard

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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Block Ground Higher Hurt
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
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
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
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Life Order Vanity
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
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
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
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
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
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
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth

When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.

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