A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
VERNON HOWARDNo 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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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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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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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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Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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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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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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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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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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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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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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