You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
VERNON HOWARDThere 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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.
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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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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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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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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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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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