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Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.

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Path, Rest, Will, Upward

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

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Great, Solution, Individual, Transformation

Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

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Truth, Acceptance, Never, Compromises

Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.

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Reason, Mature, Another, Another Way

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

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Development, Which, Badness, Neurosis

In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

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City, Reach, Own, Noisy

A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

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Other, Desperate, Telling, Emptiness

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

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Beauty, Deep, Skin, Valuable Asset

Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.

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Study, Carefully, Owner, Expressions

Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

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Own, Will, Your, Careless

For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

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Desire, Problem, Call, Confusion

When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

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Young, Reasoning, Feel, Blow

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

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Strength, Tyranny, Some, Dictatorship

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

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Emotional, Breaks, Hypnotic, Acquainted

You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

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Created, Same Time, Also, Excused

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

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Mind, Remember, Contents, Stability

What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

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Mind, Through, Always, Cooling

Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly accepts this pronouncement at face value will soon find himself working magical accomplishments far beyond that which he previously dreamed possible.

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Woman, Beyond, Soon, Accomplishments

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

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Why, Unconscious, Which, Forms

Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.

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Think, Down, Endless, Worship

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

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Strength, Strong, Needs, Sheep

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

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See, Conscious, Freed, Enslaved

Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

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Through, Cunning, Putting, Order

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

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Think, More, Last, Permanently

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

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Door, Honest, Just Be, Opens

We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

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Woman, New, Having, Command

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

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Call, Most, Switching, Self-Interest

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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Through, Need, Before, Halt

Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

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New, Reveal, Unwillingly, New Idea

You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

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World, Come, Becoming, Victim

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