Vernon Howard Quotes
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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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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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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Problems are cured by facing their cause.
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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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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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Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly accepts this pronouncement at face value will soon find himself working magical accomplishments far beyond that which he previously dreamed possible.
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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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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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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
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The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.
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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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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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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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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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Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you.
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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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The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
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To win real rewards, we must firmly decline the deceptive rewards offered by society.