Genuine effort is success.
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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The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm.
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
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We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand.
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You are not separate from the flowing reality; you are that flowing reality. See this and you will not see any- thing else which conflicts with it. You will be what you see.
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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
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Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
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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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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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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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An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.
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To change what you get you must change who you are.
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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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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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