The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
VERNON HOWARDDo not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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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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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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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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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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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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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