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.
VERNON HOWARDHappiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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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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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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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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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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No 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.
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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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