Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
VERNON HOWARDJust as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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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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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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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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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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