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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

Vernon Howard

The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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 are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
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
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
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Mistake Past Regret
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
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
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
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

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

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