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

Vernon Howard

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
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
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Apology Men Spiritual
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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Emergency Language Occupied Operation Simple
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Disturbance Powerful Resistance
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Slave Understanding Whatever

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