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 HOWARDFreedom begins as we become conscious of it.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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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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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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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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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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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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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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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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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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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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