The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
VERNON HOWARDYou must never fear anything at all.
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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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Genuine effort is success.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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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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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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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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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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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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Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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