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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything it's the understanding of something.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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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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You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.
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Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
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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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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
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Change is never a loss - it is change only.
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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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