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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

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Mind Thinking Years
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
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
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
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Heartache Viewpoints Wrong
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Agreement Intelligent People
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
Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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Block Ground Higher Hurt
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception

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