Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
VERNON HOWARDThe world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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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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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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