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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

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
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.
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Consider Fall Men Mind
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
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
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
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
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 outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Cups Tables Water
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
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Beauty Poor Skins
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Belief Believe Looks

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