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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

Vernon Howard

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
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
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
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
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
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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
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
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
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
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
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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Mind Thinking Years
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
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Assuming Emotional Feelings

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

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