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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

Vernon Howard

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
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
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
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes
The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Answers Quietly Willing
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
VERNON HOWARD

Mind Perseverance Persistence
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Consider Fall Men Mind

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

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