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 HOWARDThere is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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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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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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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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