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.
VERNON HOWARDGenuine effort is success.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
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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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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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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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