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

Vernon Howard

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Frightened Rude Stupid
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
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
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition Understanding
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
Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Causes Law Study
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 outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Air Liberty Men
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
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
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Healing Honesty Self
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Real Simple Spiritual
You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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Conflicts Else Flowing Things

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