Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
VERNON HOWARDSociety is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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You must never fear anything at all.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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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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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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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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