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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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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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It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.
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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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Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.
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We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
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Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.
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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them
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