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.
VERNON HOWARDQuit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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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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There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.
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The need to impress others causes half the world’s woes.
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A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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