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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.
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Desire Understanding Water
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Mind Perseverance Persistence
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
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
You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Conflicts Else Flowing Things
Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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Completed Examine Naturally Refuse
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Courage Negativity Thinking
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Mistake Past Regret
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
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.
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Block Ground Higher Hurt
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

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