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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

Vernon Howard

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.
VERNON HOWARD

Desire Understanding Water
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
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
Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Psychics Sea Self
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
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
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
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 outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison

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