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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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We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
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Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.
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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
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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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It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.
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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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Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
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Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
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