If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
VERNON HOWARDDon’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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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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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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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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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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