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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.

Vernon Howard

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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
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
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
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
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
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
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
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Awakening Needs Perfect
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years

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