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

Vernon Howard

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
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Simple World Worry
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
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
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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Hurt Ideas Revenge
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 be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
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
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Courage Negativity Thinking
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
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Acceptance Block Simple
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success

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