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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.

Vernon Howard

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
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
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
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
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Conflicts Else Flowing Things
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
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
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
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
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
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
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
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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Feet Sensible Years
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Always Break Mind Through Trying
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
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
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

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.

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