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Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
Chaos
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Human
Humans
Self
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Awakening
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Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
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The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people it is your reaction.
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One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything it's the understanding of something.
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Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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