We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
VERNON HOWARDA 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.
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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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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
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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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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.
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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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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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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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