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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.

Vernon Howard

Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
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
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
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
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
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Breathing Finding Yourself Personality
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
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
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
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
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Carnival Costumes Crowds
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night

Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.

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