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.
VERNON HOWARDThe answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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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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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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