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

Vernon Howard

Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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Completed Examine Naturally Refuse
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
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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Brave Crisis Giving Self Suggest
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
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Challenges Feelings Gratitude
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
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
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Pseudo Reality Want
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Simple World Worry
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Fun Really Truth
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
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

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

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