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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.

Vernon Howard

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Carnival Costumes Crowds
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
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
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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Knowing Men Self
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Acquisition 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
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Nonsense Trying Years
A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Consider Fall Men Mind
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
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
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 clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Emotion Negative Understanding
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
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
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
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Choices Path Wise Words

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