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Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

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

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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
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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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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception hence his delusion.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
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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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Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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