You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
VERNON HOWARDOne 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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 answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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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 miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
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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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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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