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

Vernon Howard

We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
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
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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Needs Obsessed Obsession
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
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Consider Fall Men Mind
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
You must never fear anything at all.
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Fear Mind never
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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
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
Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Events Movement Outcomes
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want

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