Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
VERNON HOWARDGenuine effort is success.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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You must never fear anything at all.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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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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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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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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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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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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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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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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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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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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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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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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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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