You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
VERNON HOWARDThe search for truth is really a lot of good fun.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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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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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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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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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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