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

Vernon Howard

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Assuming Emotional Feelings
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
The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Important Understand Way
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
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
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 outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
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
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
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding

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