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

Vernon Howard

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
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Events Movement Outcomes
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
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
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Spiritual Teacher Wise
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
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
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
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
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

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