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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

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
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
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
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Healing Health Yield
We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Freedom Kingdoms Realizing
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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Delusion Men Thinking
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
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Guidance Heard Night
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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Hurt Ideas Revenge
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Creativity Dark Mistakes
Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Hurt Pain Resistance
Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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Real Simple Spiritual
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Care Made Mind
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
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Life Order Vanity
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Attitude Change Loss
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
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Cups Tables Water
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Begins Conscious Freedom
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Half Needs World
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
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
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
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Dawn Mind Trying
Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Live Nothing Trying
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
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

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