Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
VERNON HOWARDThe only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable – when lived in fully – of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Inner 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.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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