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

Vernon Howard

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
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
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
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
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Breathing Finding Yourself Personality
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Proportion Running Transformation
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
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

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