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

Vernon Howard

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
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
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Courage Negativity Thinking
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
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
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Life Order Vanity
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
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
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
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies

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