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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

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
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
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
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Mind Thinking Years
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
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Belief Believe Looks
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying

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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