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Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.

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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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Genuine effort is success.
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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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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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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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The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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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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You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
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Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
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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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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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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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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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