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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.

Vernon Howard

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
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 slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
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
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
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
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
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Proportion Running Transformation
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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Rain Self Wind
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Acceptance Block Simple
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying

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