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.
VERNON HOWARDA false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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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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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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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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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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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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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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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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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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