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

Vernon Howard

All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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Brave Crisis Giving Self Suggest
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
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
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
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
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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People

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

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

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