To change what you get you must change who you are.
VERNON HOWARDIt is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
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Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
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Suppose you stand on a high place to enjoy the beauty of the sparkling sea below. You need do nothing to create that beauty; you need only BE IN THE SAME PLACE WHERE IT IS, and let nature do the rest. So it is with the inner life.
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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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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
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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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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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