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.
VERNON HOWARDIf 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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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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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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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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