Vernon Howard Quotes
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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Problems are cured by facing their cause.
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Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.
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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
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The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.
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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
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What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Human opinions are formed by accident and hardened by repetition. We cling to acquired opinions only because they give the illusion of being wise opinions. This creates division and hostility between people.
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If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.
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Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you.
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A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.
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You are not really bothered by what others think of you. You are bothered by what you think of yourself.
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Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.
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Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.