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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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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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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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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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If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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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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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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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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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
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Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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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 clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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