Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
VERNON HOWARDOur life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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There is no way reality can be prevented from flowing the way it flows. It is our vain attempts to force it to flow in the service of our imaginary needs which sets us in painful conflict with our- selves and nature.
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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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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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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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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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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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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
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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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You have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!
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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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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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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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