Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
VERNON HOWARDJust as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Who asks a king for a penny?
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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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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