Vernon Howard Quotes
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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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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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The best way to start doing something is to start doing something.
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Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
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Constantly ask yourself, 'What level is above this one?' This makes things different. Take personal problems for example. Problems are not solved by choosing between this and that. The very need to choose indicates misunderstanding. Problems are solved by outgrowing both this and that.
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The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
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Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.
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Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.
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Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
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Try to see what attitudes rule your day, then ask what kind of a day you usually have.
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The only way you're going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself.
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Why do you permit a mere word to stand in your way? Forget the word 'difficult' and take your next step.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.
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You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image?
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Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it.
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Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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No man is really interested in getting what he craves. He is really interested in being at peace with himself, but dosen't know how.
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The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.
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Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.
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Everyone has imaginary ideas of himself as being this or that sort of person. And you can be sure that the images are highly complimentary! But since they are purely imaginary, they are highly sensitive to assault by reality.
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Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.
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The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.