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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.

Vernon Howard

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Change Get Must
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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Rain Self Wind
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Air Liberty Men
Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking

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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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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