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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

Vernon Howard

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Assuming Emotional Feelings
Genuine effort is success.
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Effort Genuine Success
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Self Unseen Weakness
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
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
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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Awakening Needs Perfect
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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Always Assuming Force Genuine People Thievery
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
When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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Energy Mind Strong
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Loss Opposites Thinking

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