See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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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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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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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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We clearly realize that freedom’s inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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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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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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