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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.

Vernon Howard

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
VERNON HOWARD

Hurt Ideas Revenge
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
VERNON HOWARD

Self Unseen Weakness
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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Spiritual Teacher Wise
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
VERNON HOWARD

Life Order Vanity
A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
VERNON HOWARD

Awakening Needs Perfect
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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Escape Knows Prison
Change is never a loss – it is change only.
VERNON HOWARD

Attitude Change Loss
Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.
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Success Successful Truth
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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Air Liberty Men
The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Ends Moments Storm
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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Imagination Life Reality
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Chosen Exactly Want
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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Secret Teachable Whole
Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.
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Acceptance Block Simple
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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Challenges Feelings Gratitude
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 HOWARD

Apology Men Spiritual

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