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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Vernon Howard

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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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Conscious
Freedom
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.
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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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A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
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