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Who asks a king for a penny?

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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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Pennies
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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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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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.
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Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
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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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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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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It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.
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