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• A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

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  Running, Night, Painful Experiences

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• When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

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  Strong, Mind, Energy

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• The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.

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  Storm, Moments, Ends

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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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  Gratitude, Challenges, Feelings

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• Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

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  Motivational, Book, Reading

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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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  Hurt, Pain, Doe

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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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  Frustration, Battle, Causes

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• Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

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  Truth, Honesty, Doors

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• Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

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  Understanding, Acquisition

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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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  Letting Go, Journey, Delay

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• To change what you get you must change who you are.

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  Change, Who You Are

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• Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.

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  Worried, Practicals

  "A Treasury of Trueness: Gems of Wisdom". Book by Vernon Howard, 1995.

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• Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

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  Believe, Looks, Belief

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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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  Men, Becoming, Accepting

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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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  Success, Truth, Successful

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• Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.

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  Mind, Example, Watches

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• Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.

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  Stupid, Rude, Frightened

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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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  Spiritual, Real, Simple

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• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

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  Truth, Hygiene, Viewpoints

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• Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.

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  Strong, Light, Confusion

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• The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

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  Healing, Health, Yield

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• You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.

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  Mind, Care, Made

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• It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the
  mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

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  Years, Feet, Sensible

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• How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would your react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like that.

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  Inspirational, Hurt, Fear

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• The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

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  Important, Way

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