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.
VERNON HOWARDInterpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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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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Who asks a king for a penny?
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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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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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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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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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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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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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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