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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

Vernon Howard

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
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
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
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
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Spiritual Teacher Wise
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
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
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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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Knowing Men Self
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

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