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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

Vernon Howard

If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Loss Opposites Thinking
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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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Simple World Worry
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
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Beauty Poor Skins
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
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
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self

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