The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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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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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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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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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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