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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

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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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Truth
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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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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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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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You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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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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Genuine effort is success.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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The problem is not what other people think, do or say it is your reaction.
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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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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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We can become slaves to things we don't understand
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
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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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