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

Vernon Howard

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
VERNON HOWARD

Hygiene Truth Viewpoints
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Mind Thinking Years
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Psychics Sea Self
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness

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