Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
VERNON HOWARDDon’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
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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.
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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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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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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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