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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
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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.
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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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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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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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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
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