When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
VERNON HOWARDInner 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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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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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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Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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