Change is never a loss – it is change only.
VERNON HOWARDAnger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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