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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
Heartache
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Wrong
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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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We can become slaves to things we don't understand
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The problem is not what other people think, do or say it is your reaction.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
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We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything it's the understanding of something.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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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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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception hence his delusion.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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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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