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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

Vernon Howard

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
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
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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
You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Battle Causes Frustration
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Inspirational Strength Strong
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Belief Believe Looks
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
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want

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