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

Vernon Howard

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
VERNON HOWARD

Home Love Mistake
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
VERNON HOWARD

Needs Reality Self
To change what you get you must change who you are.
VERNON HOWARD

Change Get Must
Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
VERNON HOWARD

Real Simple Spiritual
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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Feet Sensible Years
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Consider Fall Men Mind
Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
VERNON HOWARD

Block Ground Higher Hurt
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
VERNON HOWARD

Conflict Conscious Perception
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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
VERNON HOWARD

Disturbance Powerful Resistance
Who asks a king for a penny?
VERNON HOWARD

Asks Kings Pennies

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