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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Vernon Howard

What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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Always Break Mind Through Trying
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Great Knowledge Power Self
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
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
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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People Suffering World
There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Needs Reality Self
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
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Conflict Conscious Perception
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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Desire Understanding Water
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Goal Self Supermind Upset
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
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
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole

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