Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
VERNON HOWARDWhen told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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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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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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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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Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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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 answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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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When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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