The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
VERNON HOWARDThe leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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 must never fear anything at all.
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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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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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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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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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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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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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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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