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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.

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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
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
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
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
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
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Simple World Worry
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
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
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
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Doors Honesty Truth
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
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hygiene Truth Viewpoints

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