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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Vernon Howard

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.
VERNON HOWARD

Air Liberty Men
When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it.
VERNON HOWARD

Simple World Worry
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Events Movement Outcomes
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Creativity Dark Mistakes
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
VERNON HOWARD

Great Knowledge Power Self
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
VERNON HOWARD

Begins Conscious Freedom
When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
VERNON HOWARD

Dawn Mind Trying
The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
VERNON HOWARD

Half Needs World
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
VERNON HOWARD

Cups Tables Water
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
VERNON HOWARD

Self Unseen Weakness
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Needs Reality Self
You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
VERNON HOWARD

Care Made Mind
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Hurt Ideas Revenge
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
VERNON HOWARD

Healing Honesty Self
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.
VERNON HOWARD

Brave Crisis Giving Self Suggest
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
VERNON HOWARD

Home Love Mistake

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

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