Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
VERNON HOWARDIt 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.
More Vernon Howard Quotes
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
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All we have to do is to receive what we are given…We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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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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Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
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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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Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
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You must never fear anything at all.
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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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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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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement – the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
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Change is never a loss – it is change only.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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