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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

Vernon Howard

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Home Love Mistake
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Real Simple Spiritual
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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
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
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
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
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Belief Believe Looks
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 must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
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

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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