Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
VERNON HOWARDGenuine effort is success.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live 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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It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
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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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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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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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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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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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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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