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

Vernon Howard

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
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
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
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Awakening Needs Perfect
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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 have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
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
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss

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