Who asks a king for a penny?
VERNON HOWARDSee human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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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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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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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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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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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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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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