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

Vernon Howard

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
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
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
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Proportion Running Transformation
Who asks a king for a penny?
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Asks Kings Pennies
Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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Rain Self Wind
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Mistake Past Regret
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 clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
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
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Confusion Grief Self
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Acceptance Block Simple
Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Beauty Poor Skins

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