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

Vernon Howard

You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Battle Causes Frustration
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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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Consider Fall Men Mind
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
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
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
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Cups Tables Water
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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Desire Understanding Water
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

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