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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Vernon Howard

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
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
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
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
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Battle Causes Frustration
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
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
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
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
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

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