We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
VERNON HOWARDAloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.
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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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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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