Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.
VERNON HOWARDEvery day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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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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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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If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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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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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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No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
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Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.
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Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
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Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.
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