The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there’s is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.
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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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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.
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When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
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You have it made when you don’t care whether you have it made or not.
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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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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Don’t look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.
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Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.
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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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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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Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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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.
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