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The problem is not what other people think, do or say it is your reaction.

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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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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything it's the understanding of something.
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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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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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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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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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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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A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way
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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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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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