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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

Vernon Howard

We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
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
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
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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Emergency Language Occupied Operation Simple
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
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
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
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
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Always Break Mind Through Trying
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

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