The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
VERNON HOWARDBitterness 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Don’t try to live. Let yourself be lived.
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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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A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.
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The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can’t have both.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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Genuine effort is success.
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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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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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