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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
Escape
Prison

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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
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Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
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Genuine effort is success.
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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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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation it requires simple acceptance and nothing 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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You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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