See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
VERNON HOWARDNo 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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