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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!

Vernon Howard

The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
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
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Carnival Costumes Crowds
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
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
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
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
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
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
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Success Successful Truth
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
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
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Mind Thinking Years
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
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
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality

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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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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