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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

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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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We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.
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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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Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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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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We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
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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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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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Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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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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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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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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