The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
VERNON HOWARDJust be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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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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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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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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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