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Genuine effort is success.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
Genuine
Effort
Success

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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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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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Who asks a king for a penny?
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We can become slaves to things we don't understand
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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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Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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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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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
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